Battery Recycling

Sedona Recycles is proud to offer household battery recycling at New Frontiers in Sedona the first Thursday of every month.

Batteries are collected from 11am-3pm outside New Frontiers Natural Marketplace, 1420 W Hwy 89A. If you cannot attend the collection event, please bring your batteries to our facility during business hours. There is a suggested donation of $1 per pound. Donations are always appreciated to help support our programs.

Most household batteries are accepted, including:

• A through D
• 9-volt
• Rechargeable or single use
• Cell phone batteries
• Drill batteries
• Watch batteries

Alkaline batteries are recycled by Westech Recyclers in Phoenix, AZ. Rechargeable batteries are recycled by the nonprofit Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation. Click here to see how each type of battery is recycled.

We do not accept auto batteries, please take them to Checker Auto Parts or Napa Auto Parts.

Rechargeables vs. Disposables

According to the EPA, Americans purchase nearly 3 billion dry-cell disposable batteries every year. This constitutes 88% of the mercury and 54% of the cadmium deposited into US solid waste landfills, posing a potential long-term threat to groundwater and drinking water supplies.

According to a study by Uniross carried out in 2007, the production of rechargeable batteries have the following advantages over disposables (comparing serviceable life):

- 23 times less potential impact on non-renewable natural resources
- 28 times less potential impact on global warming
- 30 times less potential impact on air pollution (ozone pollution)
- 9 times less potential impact on air acidification
- 2 times less potential impact on water pollution

* Soviero, Marcelle, "Batteries Come Clean," Popular Science, July 1992, v241, n1.