text:  Yes, a lot of the battery centers will take them for recycling. There's a lot of ways to recycle them appropriately. But yes, when you throw them in the trash, you do create a potential hazard because, again, when they get physically damaged, that's what can cause some of the connections inside the battery to cross and start a fire. So imagine a box of those batteries going into the back of a garbage truck, and then they compact the garbage and damage that battery, and then all of a sudden,