Works a charm
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Can I send you mine ?
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I called my local dump, they said no.
They gave me a local battery recycle number , I called, answering machine , leave number, never called back.
Went online to their website. Asked for zip. It gave me another web link, that gave only car battery recycle drop off places.
Used the online questions chat bot, asked specifically about lithium battery disposal, it sent me back to car battery recyclers.
Dead ends everywhere I tried locally. Went physically to local fire dept and asked them, they refered me to local waste management company , where I started from at the beginning. Even asked them to take it for fire training /-), he didn’t think that was as funny as I did, and said no.
I’m at a dead end.
It was a auto jumper battery that last time I charged it , it swelled up and split the case apart. The literature that came with it says if it swells it is dangerous , not to use and to legally dispose of it.
Laptop batteries swell up all the time. I have gotten calls at the Help Desk I use to work at and we used primarily Dell. The motherboard, touchpad and sometimes the shell has to be replace as it warps and melts.
Photos of battery laptop fires.
http://tinyurl.com/4uv2fp49
Laptop battery swelling damage
http://tinyurl.com/48952p97
Cell phone fires
http://tinyurl.com/43us3jab
Tesla battery fires
http://tinyurl.com/39vyp6ax
Common among all is lithium batteries and I bet Chinese manufacturing ‘standards’.
Okay, so, sorry - didn’t see your message, wasn’t paying attention, etc.
So, the right answer (depending on how you look at it) ...
Yeah, I just did a search, and the thing I was going to suggest (salt water immersion) is being pooh-poohed. I don’t know if that means it’s wrong, or if it’s media being media.
Anyway. We’re talking lithium, right?
Well, you put it in your Tesla and drive somewhere nice and deserted, and ... No, that’s not it.
Honestly, I used to do R/C airplanes, and I have a bunch of them I should get rid of. I’ve been dropping them off one or two at a time, here and there, in part because I know the risks and don’t want any true negative consequences, you know.
(being euphemistic there)
But yeah, the standard answer I read back in the day was dump them in a bucket of salt water (somewhere safe) and leave them for a day or two, then just throw them out. The salt water would leach the energy out of them so that they would end up inert, or so was the theory.
This video https://youtu.be/-Wn9kEMU5dk describes the process ... I’m surprised the damaged battery hadn’t previously burst into flames on the guy.
Anyway, once you’ve done this, they should be safe to just throw out.
Best of luck to you!