Scrap car battery.

The scrappy round here was less fussy, they just said "bring photo ID next time" and paid by bank transfer.

I've got a heap of UPS batteries to weigh in, but I think I'll stop crushing my own cans instead of giving them to the council, I've been doing it since xmas, and the weight of the box doesn't seem worth the hassle, plus repeated dropping of a 28lb weight is starting to chip away at my garage floor!

The outfit I used pretty large. They had a separate shed for things like car batteries. And an operator who weighed them in. Giving him my licence allowed a machine to read it and produce a printed chit with my name and address on it and details of the load. Then had to take this to the office to get paid.

Probably worth it if you do it all in one trip.

Not sure mine has ever asked (and I don't have any photo ID in any case) but maybe the rules have changed since then?

They are good because they are normally clean and sealed. ;-)

It isn't ... as mentioned elsewhere, I took 3 black bags *full* of crushed ally cans and got £2.50 or something so now give them to the Council. ;-)

We had one of those wall mounted can crushers that actually worked pretty well (turning even a tall ally lager can into a 'puck').

Cheers, T i m

And using a sledge hammer or hydraulic press or a bench vice onto the puck turns it into a disc.....

Hmmm, that could have been fun, I have a 10 tonne hydraulic press ... ;-)

So if I could have got twice as many into the black sacks that would have made them worth double ... so £5! ;-)

Cheers, T i m