Recycling Old Reloading components

[markg]

I did a search of recycling reloading components and I did not find anything on the site.

Can you recycle old brass / spent primers / and really old powder? Is there anything that you need to specifically do?

Do you have to take it to the fire department or do most recycling centers have a place for this stuff?

[Dewey Cox]

Old brass can be sold by the pound at a scrap yard.
Primers can go there too, but probably won't be worth money.

[MountainTi]

Spread the old powder on your lawn or garden.
Throw the rest in the garbage

[saskbooknut]

Old powder? How old, do you know it's bad?
I'm loading Winchester powders from the 80s.

[32-40win]

From what I've seen, some powder will degrade to the point of showing red colours on a glass, looks like a rusty powder deposit, and some will get stinky, won't smell right, even kinda nasty. Just discovered I may have an issue with powder degradation in some old ammo I loaded in 1993, a couple of days ago. Bolt got stiff lift happening on it. That ammo had been out hunting a few times over the years, temp changes may have affected it over time. Time to get rid of those I guess, only about 30 of them left out of 100. I was contemplating trying something different anyway, same bullet, different, newer, more temp stable powder maybe.