car key "fob" recycling?

[CathyA]

I have several old key remotes from cars I no longer have. Anyone have a business that accepts them? There are quite a few online places, but either Norton doesn't like them, they have a required membership, or is for large amounts only. Any ideas? We throw so much out that could be recycled..........Think of all those plastic credit/gift cards! I actually had one once that had a recycling number on it! seems like an easy thing to do, but alas, no business is doing it.

[Tybee]

I have several old key remotes from cars I no longer have. Anyone have a business that accepts them? There are quite a few online places, but either Norton doesn't like them, they have a required membership, or is for large amounts only. Any ideas? We throw so much out that could be recycled..........Think of all those plastic credit/gift cards! I actually had one once that had a recycling number on it! seems like an easy thing to do, but alas, no business is doing it.
Yes, we just bought a new phone battery yesterday at the battery store and he recycled the old one. They do car remotes so they would recycle it there.

[ToomuchStuff]

Our city has an electronics recycling thing, and since they have a circuit board. Batteries I know can be recycled in stores, but not sure if all do the boards. (however a lot of electronics/pc's use those same batteries in them for backup calendar purposes)

[Chicken lady]

The original car dealership? Maybe they can be reprogrammed.

[goldensmom]

I am just curious here but why do you have key fobs/remotes from cars you no longer have? Were the cars taken to salvage yards as no longer in use and the key remotes were not needed? The reason I ask is that I have bought 2 used cars that came with only one key fob or remote and I had to buy the second. As cars come with two originally, I always wondered what happened to the original second.

[CathyA]

I am just curious here but why do you have key fobs/remotes from cars you no longer have? Were the cars taken to salvage yards as no longer in use and the key remotes were not needed? The reason I ask is that I have bought 2 used cars that came with only one key fob or remote and I had to buy the second. As cars come with two originally, I always wondered what happened to the original second.

I have 3 keys remotes that I don't use anymore. 2 of them were from a car that was totaled and one is from my old car that I traded in, and only found it later. I had given them 2 other keys. But I think they were probably going to sell it to a junk yard, so I never called them back. Yeah, it's too bad it's so expensive to have another one made.