The used lead acid batteries are legally and technically considered dangerous wastes. Reycled quantity of this kind of waste in Colombia is notorious and indicates that this is a consolidate activity in the local market, which tends to increase and become widely informal. Lead acid batteries recycling activity.causes relevant impacts related with environmental damage and occupational health upsets, so those impacts embody a challenge to solve. This paper illustrates how domestic recycling chain operates, draws a general lead market performance, offers a brief description over the related problem, and finally, states some suggestions to strike it.