How do you dispose of household batteries?

We typically only recycle around 15% of batteries in this country. However, the recycling rate for households is far lower as the national number is bolstered by businesses which use batteries as part of their operations and have systems in place to put them into recycling. Its an absolute shitshow. Of the things that get thrown into general waste, batteries are some of the most toxic and also some of the most beneficial to recycle. Save for household doorstep recycling, they're about the easiest thing to recycle and, given our abysmal national track record on household doorstep recycling, about the most effective. It should be the one thing we do well and we're genuinely awful at it. But at this point I should probably just save myself the time and effort and toss them in the black bin too. Nobody else cares and I'm not making any real difference. I don't have any kids so at least its not any of my offspring that are going to be on the hook to clean up after me.