Recycling Your Batteries is Easy

Scarsdale makes it easy to recycle batteries. Residents can bring their used batteries to Village Hall, Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, and to the Recycling Center, Monday-Saturday, 8am-5pm. Battery recycling tubes are located in the lobby of Village Hall and in the Recycling Center Office.

Single use batteries that should be recycled include alkaline, lithium and button batteries (used in watches and hearing aids). Batteries that are rechargeable or that are damaged are not accepted. Nearby stores that accept rechargeable batteries include Cornell’s Hardware (310 White Plains Road, Eastchester), Home Depot (601 Sprain Road, Yonkers) and Best Buy (299 N Central Avenue, Hartsdale). For a list of batteries that are accepted and not accepted by Scarsdale, visit here.

During the recycling process, batteries are broken down and valuable materials such as nickel, cobalt and lithium are recovered. Recovered materials are then made into new products such as new batteries.

Battery recycling allows valuable metals to be reused, thereby reducing the need to mine new metals. It also eliminates the toxic fumes that are released when batteries are burned at our county incinerator (where all our trash goes).

So please, recycle your batteries.