Battery Disposal and Recycling Near You

Alaska has no state battery recycling law. EPA advises returning car batteries to a battery retailer or household hazardous waste collection and keeping rechargeable, lithium and button batteries out of the trash.

Alabama has no state battery recycling law. EPA advises returning car batteries to a battery retailer or household hazardous waste collection and keeping rechargeable, lithium and button batteries out of the trash.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Arkansas's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one; without a trade-in you pay a $10 deposit, refunded if you bring the old battery back within 30 days.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Arizona's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one; without a trade-in they must charge a deposit (store sets the amount), refunded if the old battery comes back within 45 days.

Every battery, from AA and button cells to car batteries, is banned from California trash. Take household batteries to a household hazardous waste collection. Car battery sellers must take your old one when you buy new and charge a deposit, refunded within 45 days.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Colorado's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one; any deposit must be at least $10 and is refunded if you return the old battery within 30 days.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Connecticut's trash and landfills. Sellers must take back used batteries one-for-one at the point of sale; without a trade-in you pay a $5 deposit, refunded within 30 days.

Single-use and rechargeable household batteries have been banned from DC trash since August 1, 2023 (D.C. Code § 8-771.09). Drop them off free at Battery Network collection sites around the District.

Delaware has no state battery recycling law. EPA advises returning car batteries to a battery retailer or household hazardous waste collection and keeping rechargeable, lithium and button batteries out of the trash.

Florida bans car (lead-acid) batteries from landfills and the trash, and makes it illegal to throw nickel-cadmium or small sealed lead rechargeables in the trash. The state does not follow the model store take-back law.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Georgia's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Hawaii's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Iowa's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Idaho's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one; without a trade-in you pay a $10 deposit, refunded if you bring the old battery back within 30 days.

Illinois has free household battery drop-off sites (single-use and rechargeable) under its battery stewardship law, and the state EPA says not to put batteries in curbside trash. Car batteries are banned from landfills; sellers must take old ones back.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Indiana's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

Kansas has a lead-acid battery law dating from 1990, but it is not the model take-back law and sets no deposit or store sign rule. KDHE's battery page, which covers car batteries too, tells residents to contact their local household hazardous waste facility.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Kentucky's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Louisiana's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

Lead (car) batteries are banned from disposal or incineration at Massachusetts solid waste facilities, so the dump will not take them as trash. State law does not require stores to take them back.

Maryland's battery law covers nickel-cadmium and small sealed lead rechargeables: sellers must run a collection program, which The Battery Network operates statewide. Battery Council International lists no Maryland car battery law.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Maine's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one; without a trade-in you pay a $10 deposit, refunded within 30 days. A non-refundable $1 fee applies to each new battery.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Michigan's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

It is a crime to put a car battery in Minnesota garbage. Stores selling lead-acid batteries must accept up to five used ones at a time free, even with no purchase; buying without a trade-in adds a $10 deposit, refunded within 30 days.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Missouri's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Mississippi's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

Montana has no state battery recycling law. EPA advises returning car batteries to a battery retailer or household hazardous waste collection and keeping rechargeable, lithium and button batteries out of the trash.

North Carolina bans lead-acid (car) batteries from landfills, incinerators and waste-to-energy plants; the law sends them to battery retailers, wholesalers, lead smelters or recycling facilities. It does not follow the model store take-back law.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from North Dakota's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Nebraska landfills, but the law has no store take-back rule. A 2025 battery stewardship law (LB 36) brings free household battery recycling and a disposal ban from January 1, 2028.

New Hampshire bans lead-acid (car) batteries from landfills and incinerators, but its law has no store take-back or deposit rule. EPA advises returning car batteries to a battery retailer or household hazardous waste collection.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from New Jersey's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

New Mexico bans lead-acid (car) batteries from landfills and incinerators, but its law has no store take-back or deposit rule. EPA advises returning car batteries to a battery retailer or household hazardous waste collection.

Nevada bans lead-acid (car) batteries from landfills and incinerators except at state-permitted facilities, and has no store take-back or deposit rule. EPA advises returning car batteries to a battery retailer or household hazardous waste collection.

Car batteries may not go in New York trash. Battery stores must accept up to two used lead-acid batteries a month from anyone at no charge; buying without a trade-in adds a $5 fee, refunded if you return a battery within 30 days.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Ohio's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Oklahoma's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Oregon's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Pennsylvania's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Rhode Island's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one. If a store charges a deposit, you have 7 days to return the old battery for a refund.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from South Carolina's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one; without a trade-in you pay a $5 deposit, refunded within 30 days. A $2 state fee applies to each new battery.

South Dakota landfills may not accept lead-acid (car) batteries. Battery retailers and wholesalers must accept used ones on a one-for-one exchange when you buy a new battery.

Tennessee landfills and incinerators may not accept lead-acid (car) batteries, and stores that sell them must accept used batteries as trade-ins. Stores may add a refundable core charge.

Car (lead-acid) batteries may not go in Texas trash. Stores that sell them must accept from one up to three used batteries a customer offers, and may add a refundable core charge on a new one.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Utah's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take back up to two used batteries, and may add a refundable core charge on a new one.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Virginia's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

All household batteries, single-use and rechargeable, plus e-bike and mower batteries up to 25 pounds, are banned from Vermont garbage and go free to drop-off sites run by The Battery Network. Car batteries are banned from landfills; sellers must take old ones back.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Washington's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one; without a trade-in you pay a deposit of at least $5, refunded within 30 days.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Wisconsin's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one; without a trade-in you pay a $10 deposit.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from West Virginia's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

Car (lead-acid) batteries are banned from Wyoming's trash and landfills. Stores that sell them must take your used battery when you buy a new one, and may add a refundable core charge until you bring the old one back.

Alaska has no e-waste recycling law and no state ban on putting TVs, computers or other electronics in the trash. Call your landfill or transfer station before bringing electronics to ask how it handles them.

Alabama has no e-waste recycling law and no state ban on putting TVs, computers or other electronics in household trash. Ask your landfill before bringing electronics: landfills can refuse materials under their permit conditions.

Arkansas lawmakers gave the state authority to ban e-waste from landfills starting in 2010, but the ban was never put in place, so households can throw electronics away unless their local landfill restricts it.

Arizona's only state disposal ban is on lead batteries, so TVs, computers and other electronics are not banned from the trash, and the state has no e-waste recycling law. Ask your landfill how it handles electronics.

California bans TVs, monitors, laptops, computer towers, printers, radios, microwave ovens, VCRs and phones from the trash because they often contain hazardous materials. Use CalRecycle's e-waste directory or your local waste agency to find a drop-off.

Colorado residents may not put household electronics in the trash. Since July 1, 2013, landfills, transfer stations and waste haulers have had to post signs saying waste electronic devices are prohibited from disposal.

Household TVs, computers, monitors and printers have been banned from Connecticut's trash and solid waste facilities since January 1, 2011. Under the state e-waste law, manufacturers pay for recycling and residents can recycle these devices free.

DC bans computers, tablets and e-readers, monitors and TVs with screens over 6 inches, desktop printers, keyboards, mice, DVD players, VCRs and game consoles from the trash. Manufacturers must offer recycling, and DPW takes electronics at its household hazardous waste events.

Delaware has no state e-waste law or trash ban on electronics. The Delaware Solid Waste Authority takes residents' TVs, computers, phones and other electronics free at four recycling centers six days a week.

Florida has no e-waste recycling law and no ban aimed at electronics. State landfill rules bar hazardous waste, and Florida reports that computers and CRT screens often contain it, so ask your county landfill before tossing electronics.

Georgia has no e-waste recycling law and no state ban on putting TVs, computers or other electronics in the trash. Ask your landfill or county recycling center how it handles electronics before you haul them.

Hawaii does not ban electronics from the trash, but its e-waste law makes manufacturers run recycling programs, and their collection sites may not charge you a fee when you bring a covered device to a central collection location.

Iowa has no e-waste recycling law and no ban on household electronics in the trash. State rules keep hazardous waste from businesses, including old CRT screens, out of landfills. Ask your local solid waste agency where to recycle electronics.

Idaho has no e-waste recycling law and no ban on household electronics in the trash. CRT screens are barred from regular landfills only when they count as regulated hazardous waste. Ask your landfill how it handles electronics.

It is illegal in Illinois to throw computers, monitors, TVs, printers, fax machines, scanners, keyboards, mice, DVD players, VCRs, cable and satellite boxes, music players or game consoles in the trash. Manufacturers must take part in a statewide collection network.

Indiana households, public schools and small businesses may not put TVs, monitors, computers, tablets, e-readers, fax machines, printers or other peripherals in trash headed to a landfill or incinerator. The Indiana E-Cycle program sets duties for manufacturers, retailers and recyclers.

Kansas has no e-waste recycling law and no state ban on putting TVs, computers or other electronics in the trash. Call your landfill or transfer station before you bring electronics to ask how it handles them.

Kentucky has no e-waste recycling law and no state ban on putting TVs, computers or other electronics in the trash. Ask your landfill or county recycling program how it handles electronics.

Louisiana has no e-waste recycling law and no state ban on putting TVs, computers or other electronics in the trash. Ask your parish landfill or transfer station how it handles electronics.

Massachusetts bans cathode ray tubes (old tube TVs and monitors) from disposal or transfer for disposal at landfills, incinerators and transfer stations. The state has no e-waste recycling law, and no other electronics are on its waste ban list.

Maryland does not ban electronics from the trash, but certain electronics makers must register with the state, and many run free take-back programs. Counties and some retailers also collect electronics; call your county about accepted items and fees.

It is illegal to throw away CRT and LCD screens in Maine. Manufacturers pay to recycle TVs, monitors, laptops, tablets, e-readers, printers and game consoles, and towns must offer a collection site or event, though some sites charge a small fee.

Michigan does not ban electronics from the trash, but makers of computers, monitors, TVs, tablets and printers must offer a convenient take-back program at no charge. Michigan EGLE publishes the list of free manufacturer programs.

Since July 1, 2006, Minnesota law has barred putting any electronic product with a cathode-ray tube (old tube TVs and monitors) in the trash. Ask your county where to recycle electronics.

Missouri does not ban electronics from the trash, but computer makers must offer households free recycling of their laptops, desktops, monitors and matching keyboards and mice. Display devices with a TV tuner are not covered.

Mississippi has no e-waste recycling law and no statewide ban on electronics in the trash, though some landfills ban computers and CRT screens on their own. Call ahead before hauling TVs or computers.

Montana has no statewide disposal bans at all, including on electronics, and no e-waste recycling law. Individual landfills can refuse items or charge extra fees, so call first.

North Carolina bans discarded computer equipment (such as desktops, laptops and monitors) and televisions from landfills and incinerators. Recycle them instead.

North Dakota has no e-waste recycling law and no state ban on putting TVs, computers or other electronics in the trash. Ask your landfill or transfer station how it handles electronics.

Electronics are not on Nebraska's list of items banned from landfills, and the state has no e-waste recycling law. Ask your local hauler or landfill how to recycle TVs and computers.

New Hampshire bars disposal of electronic devices in landfills and incinerators. The ban dates from 2007 for screens over 4 inches, computer towers and VCR/DVD players; a July 2025 update covers electronic devices generally and adds lithium-ion batteries.

New Jersey bans TVs, desktop and laptop computers, monitors, desktop printers and desktop fax machines from the trash. Consumers can drop them off free at collection sites run under manufacturers' plans; NJDEP posts the site list each year.

New Mexico has no e-waste recycling law and no state ban on putting TVs, computers or other electronics in the trash. Ask your landfill or transfer station how it handles electronics.

Nevada's state disposal bans cover only liquids, asbestos and hazardous waste, and it has no e-waste recycling law, so electronics are not banned statewide. Some landfill operators refuse TVs and other electronics, so check first.

Since January 1, 2015, New York households may not put electronic waste in a landfill or incinerator, or set it out with trash for pickup. Disposal facilities must post signs saying e-waste may not be disposed of there.

Ohio has no e-waste recycling law and no ban on household electronics in the trash. Its landfill rules bar hazardous waste from businesses, but household waste is treated as regular trash. Ask your solid waste district about electronics recycling.

Oklahoma does not ban electronics from the trash, but computer makers must offer a take-back program, mostly by mail, for desktop and laptop computers and monitors. TVs are not covered.

It is illegal to put computers, monitors and TVs in the garbage or take them to Oregon landfills and transfer stations for disposal. Oregon E-Cycles recycles them free for households and small businesses, up to seven items at a time.

Pennsylvania's Covered Device Recycling Act bans desktop and laptop computers, monitors, computer peripherals and TVs from municipal waste facilities. Counties, towns and haulers run drop-off sites and events; DEP's recycling hotline is 1-800-346-4242.

Rhode Island has banned TVs and computers from its landfill since 2009. Computers, monitors, laptops and TVs with screens over 9 inches go to permanent e-waste drop-offs or collection events; manufacturers fund take-back.

South Carolina residents may not put computers, monitors, printers or TVs in trash headed to a landfill (in effect since July 2011). All 46 counties offer electronics collection or one-day events; RecycleHereSC lists local options.

South Dakota has no e-waste recycling law and no state ban on putting TVs, computers or other electronics in the trash. Landfill operators can set their own material bans, so call first.

Tennessee has no e-waste recycling law and no state ban on putting TVs, computers or other electronics in the trash. Ask your county solid waste site or landfill how it handles electronics.

Texas does not ban electronics from the trash, but TV and computer makers must offer recycling to consumers. TexasRecyclesComputers.org explains free computer recycling, and TexasRecyclesTVs.org lists TV options.

Utah passed an electronics recycling law in 2011 but does not ban electronics from the trash or landfills. Check with your county or landfill before bringing TVs or computers.

Virginia does not ban electronics from the trash, but computer makers must let consumers recycle their brand of desktops, laptops and monitors without a fee, by mail, at drop-off sites or at events. TVs are not covered by this law.

Since 2011, Vermont has banned computers, monitors, TVs, printers, phones, game consoles, DVD players, VCRs, stereo equipment, chargers and similar electronics from the trash and landfills.

Washington does not ban electronics from the trash, but E-Cycle Washington recycles TVs, computers, laptops, monitors, tablets, e-readers and portable DVD players free. Keyboards, mice and printers are not included.

Wisconsin bans electronics such as TVs and computers from landfills and incinerators. The bans apply everywhere in the state, including homes, businesses, schools and special events.

West Virginia has no ban on electronics in the trash. Makers of covered electronic devices must register with the state, and those fees fund grants for county and city collection programs and events.

Wyoming has no e-waste recycling law and no ban on household electronics in the trash. CRT screens are barred from landfills only above hazardous waste quantity limits. Ask your landfill how it handles electronics.