Recently spotted my old PSP’s battery case had almost popped off due to the expanding battery. Threw it into a bucket filled with sand and hauled it to the nearest recycling place.

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[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wish there was more battery recycling places, I've seen way to many battery fires outside IRL because someone can't find anywhere to put it, so they just dump it. Batteries are everywhere and recyclers haven't done a great job educating people on it.

[–] abc@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the US at least, your local Home Depot/Lowes/etc is usually guaranteed to have at least some sort of battery disposal area. They're usually near the front. Obviously not meant for like a spicy pillow li-ion that your average reddit.com/r/spicypillows user would love to puncture, but I run through rechargable 18560s with my vape & the moment their capacity starts to hit 50% of their original I usually make a point to toss them. Same thing with like places like Batteries Plus.

Your local fire department/garbage collection facility definitely knows who you can recycle batteries to though.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Those have never been useful for me, since I've never had a battery's health drop to 50%, but I have had a bunch of Spicy Pillow batteries. And honestly, most people I know have seen a Spicy Pillow lithium ion battery in real life.

The only other reason I've had to dispose of batteries is when they're sautered and physically connected to a device that's died. Those hardware stores generally don't accept those messes, not really worth it y'know.

Utility run hazardous material drop-off sites, or hazardous material collection trucks are way more rare than they should be. I shouldn't have to deal with a private hardware company for waste disposal.