On 06/04/2021 18:33, Lobster wrote:
On Saturday, 3 April 2021 at 13:03:06 UTC+1, Chris Green wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:

So can anyone give a rough idea of what the old is worth as scrap? I've
seen about 60p a kg quoted for scrap lead, but not sure how that
translates to batteries.

Our local scrap car/metal merchant pays close to 50p/kg for batteries,
that is they just weigh the batteries on their scales and pay
accordingly.

I've been wondering the same thing myself, having accrued a sizeable collection of old car and motorcycle batteries, not to mention a fair amount of old lead piping and electrical wiring... however - I also wondered if it worthwhile/cost-effective first attacking the batteries with drill/hosepipe/hacksaw/anglegrinder etc in order to (safely) extract the lead, so as to present that to the scrappy rather than the batteries?

More trouble than it is worth IMHO. I also (slightly) rob myself by
draining the acid and rinsing out the cells with water, and emptying
them. Remember that your strategy will also lose the sludge at the
bottom of the cells and maybe from the plates themselves, which will
contain a certain amount of lead as sulphate and oxides.