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By Sarah Heeringa

Where to find battery recyclers and safe battery disposal in New Zealand. Please leave a comment to add new facilities!

Disposable batteries cannot be recycled in New Zealand, but several local authorities provide a battery collection service. Auckland’s HazMobile service  collects hazardous household waste such as batteries, chemicals and fluorescent lamps. Your local authority (find yours at www.localgovt.co.nz) can advise you on local battery collectors and recyclers.

Rechargeable batteries can be recycled. Some recyclers we’ve found include:

  • Tredi New Zealand has a programme to collect, sort and ship nickel cadmium batteries to France for recycling. It also collects and recycles lithium-ion and nickel-metal hydride batteries. Tredi recycles batteries containing mercury.
  • Interwaste is a nationwide hazardous waste processing, disposal and recycling company. It has a collection service for batteries containing nickel, cadmium and mercury.
  • Exide Technologies is a battery manufacturer that offers a recycling service for lead-acid batteries such as car batteries in Petone, Lower Hutt. It also has an arrangement with Dominion Trading to collect scrap batteries in Christchurch. It recycles more than 500,000 scrap lead-acid batteries in New Zealand each year.
  • Sony has a small-scale battery collection point at its stores. It can accept all types of batteries used in Sony products but only in low volumes.
  • Recell offers a service replacing the rechargeable nickel cadmium or nickel-metal hydride batteries in power tools and other portable equipment. New cells are fitted into the old case and the used cells sent to Tredi (see above) for environmentally safe disposal.
  • Millennium Batteries accepts nickel-metal hydride and nickel-cadmium batteries. This is a drop-off service (ie no collection). Phone: (09) 410 2402
  • Battery World will take back any old consumer batteries for recycling or safe disposal at their two retail outlets in Auckland and Whangarei.

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