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Battery Recycling & Disposal in Johannesburg
Battery recycling in Johannesburg goes through scrap metal dealers, battery shops and e-waste recyclers in Gauteng. Lead acid batteries are usually bought by weight, so phone ahead for the rate. For lithium, ask who accepts it and whether they collect, and for a business, whether they supply crates and proof of disposal.
New to this? Read the battery recycling guide for the choices and the questions worth asking before you pay.
Johannesburg notes on batteries
Scrap dealers in the south, around Village Main and along Main Reef Road, buy old lead acid batteries, so a dead trolley or gate battery still has some value. Lithium modules need a specialist recycler instead. In Soweto, from Orlando to Pimville, a 12 V or 24 V lithium battery on a small inverter is a common first step. Keep it indoors and out of sight, because battery theft is a real risk.
Power in Johannesburg
Most of Johannesburg is supplied by City Power, while Eskom supplies parts of Soweto and a few outlying areas directly, so households a few streets apart can live with quite different outage patterns. Cable theft in the south and along rail lines, ageing underground cables in the inner city and overloaded local substations cause many of the longer interruptions, and Highveld summer storms add their share. In Melville, Parkhurst and Kensington, owners of older houses usually want an inverter and lithium battery for the lights, wifi, fridge and gate. Tenants in Braamfontein and Berea lean on router UPS units and power stations instead. Old wiring is common, so expect an electrician to look at the DB board before quoting.
The requests we see from Johannesburg usually come from:
- Homeowners: dropping off an old inverter bank, gate battery or car battery for scrap
- Offices and home offices: removing worn UPS blocks from every desk and the server room
- Shops, restaurants and salons: taking away old till UPS batteries and a trolley battery from the shop
Local tips for Johannesburg
Most asked for in Johannesburg: inverters with lithium batteries for older houses, router UPS units for flats. Where installers and battery shops work from: electricians and battery shops in Booysens, Selby, Ormonde and along Main Reef Road. A useful tip: ask whether the old DB board needs work and whether that is in the quote.
Requests range widely: a single battery to pallets from a site. Here, homeowners lead the requests, typically for dropping off an old inverter bank, gate battery or car battery for scrap. One local point to raise: city Power, Eskom direct in parts of Soweto; cable theft and tired substations.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Requests from Johannesburg go to installers and suppliers who already work in Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville and the rest of the area. Mention an estate with access rules, a double storey or a long cable run from the DB board, because they change the job.