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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[–] 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.