[ale] Laptop battery disposal

[Jim Kinney]

I was going to suggest any old dumpster filled with paper, cardboard, flammable liquids, but watching water appear to burn wins hands down.

On April 16, 2021 4:10:18 PM EDT, Solomon Peachy via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>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
>-- 
>Solomon Peachy			      pizza at shaftnet dot org (email&xmpp)
>                                     @pizza:shaftnet dot org   (matrix)
>High Springs, FL                      speachy (freenode)

-- 
Computers amplify human error
Super computers are really cool
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20210416/a3b3ea63/attachment.htm>