Originally Posted by you are dumb

I usually keep them a few days out of guilt, thinking I'll recycle them, then get sick of looking at them and just bury them in the trash. I'll be dead in 30 years and won't have to deal with it.

Besides, I figure how much energy is consumed for a UPS truck to pick up, say, a small lead-acid battery, put in a cardboard box, drive it/fly it hundreds of miles to a recycler somewhere?