[ale] Laptop battery disposal

Solomon Peachy pizza at shaftnet.org
Fri Apr 16 16:10:18 EDT 2021


On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 07:43:29PM +0000, Steve Tynor via Ale wrote:
> I just replaced a swollen battery in my old macbook pro and now need to
> dispose of the old one.  Any advice on somewhere local I can drop it off?
> (NW Atlanta/Tucker area).

Cut it in half, drop it in a bucket of water, and after a few seconds
toss in a match and watch the water burn! 

LiIon isn't inhernetly toxic, just highly volatile.

But that said, any hardware store (or Best Buy, last time I set foot in 
one) accepted old LiIon batteries.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			      pizza at shaftnet dot org (email&xmpp)
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High Springs, FL                      speachy (freenode)
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