disposing of spent primers with complications

[pasquot]

I did a search for this subject< None found. How do you dispose of spent primers?  In addition i have dropped a few good primers on the floor with several hundred spent primers. along with some spilled gun powder.

So far, i put all of them in a plastic box. All mixed in. Now what.

My concern is with a few live primers i can't put them in the fireplace. That was my idea to dispose of the powder.

I really would like a lot of feedback on this as all reloaders have the same problem.

[Gun Runner]

I sweep up the primers and they go in the trash. Never use a vaccum cleaner it will set off live primers,every now and then, dosent do the cleaner a lot of good either. As for any old powder , or spilt it gets burned on the ground out in the back yard.

Gun Runner

[stork]

I just thow away spent primers.  I only load 20 or so a time so I don't have to worry about a few live primers among a couple hundred spent primers.  And spilled powder gets put in a tin can and is burned.

[Awf Hand]

According to Hodgdon, the powder can go right on the lawn.  It will make great fertilizer.  The primers (we're not talking about truckloads, here) can go into your domestic trash.  Don't try to set off primers intentionally, unless they are in a cartridge and chambered.  They can send a cup or an anvil flying FAST, likely in a direction you don't want.

[BCB]

pasquot,

For the past decade or so I have been putting my spent primers into quart jars.  I then use them as book ends to hold my reloading manuals in place on a couple of shelves next to my reloading equipment.  They fit the décor of the reloading room!!!  The quart jars filled with primers weigh in at around 7 pounds, the 1 ½ quart jars weigh in at around 12 pounds.  The books stay in place nicely!!!  Wish I would have saved them all from my nearly 35 years of reloading—beaucoup quarts…BCB