Hello,

I am new to the scrap forum and fairly new to scrapping.

I am a college student in the Midwest that started hauling scrap about a year ago. I am doing a lot agriculture lots or farms.

Recently I got a connection to 10+ tons of mixed AA, AAA, C, D, etc batteries that are a mix of alkaline & lithium & other primary batteries a month.

I have looked on the forum and haven't really found anything recent posted.

I can get the first ton or so for free and then I can pick up the rest for cheap because the place I want to get them from is currently land filling them at a fairly high cost.

What I would like to do is purchase the batteries, sort them by chemistry (Li Ion, Alkaline, etc.), and then ship the batteries to a recycler. The place I will be getting them from cannot afford to sort them by chemistry because of their cost of union labor (Every employee is at least $30/hour).

I have found batteryrecycling which is a website (add . com, i am not allowed to post links yet). Has anyone worked with them?

But it doesn't seem like they are necessarily the right market because they sort them for me (profits would be higher if I sorted).

My question is would anyone like to share who they sell too? I have found multiple places that buy batteries but they are all scrap yards that sell them to someone else and they are not in my area. If anyone could give me some insight that would be awesome.

Lastly does anyone know the process of recycling alkaline batteries? Just wondering out of curiosity. I was thinking something like they shred the batteries, run that under a magnet, run the zinc and manganese under an eddy current to separate it from the garbage, and then get rid of the garbage. Is this about what happens?



Thanks a ton!