Recycle batteries from home

If you live in Elmbridge, Guildford, Mole Valley, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley or Woking, you can put batteries out for recycling.

If you live in Epsom and Ewell or Reigate and Banstead, batteries cannot be recycled from home.

To find out what to do with different types of battery, visit our webpage on can you recycle batteries?

If you live in Elmbridge, Guildford, Mole Valley, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley or Woking, leave your batteries in a small, tied plastic bag next to or on top of your bins on collection day.

Batteries must be contained within bags, which must be no larger than a standard sized supermarket carrier bag. Batteries in larger bags, such as bin bags, will not be collected.

Save them up and take them to a local shop that sells batteries – most that do, collect them for recycling. Visit our zero-waste map to find a shop that accepts batteries for recycling near you.

Once collected, batteries are turned into small pieces of metal and plastic, which are used to make many new metal and plastic products and batteries. Find out more by visiting our webpage on what happens to your waste.

When you recycle batteries, it is good for the environment because it means that it saves on using up new resources to create products. It also saves councils money when you recycle batteries as it costs more to process rubbish than it does to recycle them. If placed in bins, batteries are a fire risk.