What to do with spent li-ion battery cell how to responsibly get rid of them

[sam_sam_sam]

I have a lot of spent battery and need to find a new home for them

Anyone have any ideas for a responsible solution for this issue

[stj]

deplete them with a load
+
trashcan

[sam_sam_sam]

deplete them with a load
+
trashcan

Are you sure about this

[stj]

works for me.
the way i see it, governments dump their shit in the ocean or burn it.
so why should i give a fuck?

[stj]

i'll add,
it's a stainless-steel or nickel case with a roll of paper in it.
the paper it coated in a sludge containing a tiny amount of lithium - that is mined out of the ground in the first place,
and the rest is mostly cobolt - also mined from out of the ground.
so not really an enviromental threat imo.

[eccerr0r]

My local government provides a battery recycling service at the landfill, though unsure what they do with it. They explicitly do not want the batteries in the landfill, maybe just because of the fire risk. Also lead batteries are removed from the landfill lane of course, those can be easily recycled despite lead also being mined from the ground...

Ultimately at this point lithium ion cells have too much "other" crap in it making it hard to recycle unlike lead batteries. This is compounded by the fact that is similar to the plastic recycling problem - there is too many different kinds and nobody cares enough about iron phosphate, manganese dioxide, or cobalt dioxide differences just the same as nobody cares about polyethylene, polypropylene, or polyvinyl chloride.

[petehall347]

not many places set up to deal with them . l looked into setting up a place to recycle them . there are lots of hoops to jump through plus it costs lots of money . looks maybe lucrative if done correctly . the chemistry changes inside them and create new things that are wanted . cant remember what right now .

[stj]

not much lead in "lead" batteries these days.
they just lead-plate some crap metal like zinc to save money.
if they still made them like in the old days they would be pretty valuable to scrappers

[stj]

small batteries look fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBg4ximDrsk

[sam_sam_sam]

This was on 60 Minutes last night about how to deal li-ion battery packs that become damaged and dangerous to be around watch the hole clip very interesting concept for dealing with this type of issue

https://www.instagram.com/60minutes/reel/DH3_0Y8xF2E/

It is a instagram video clip unfortunately it is only part of the story

Here is the full video segment of the story that I found very interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYFksPCL-I8

Unfortunately you do have to have a YouTube account to be able to watch it this is the one you to watch the hole video clip especially towards the end of video

[sam_sam_sam]

The website is giving some issues posting the website link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYFksPCL-I8

[eccerr0r]

Lead acid batteries are still all lead else it would be much more difficult to recycle/scrap them, and at least here in the USA scrappers readily take car batteries, dead or alive. The zinc would react with the sulfuric acid too causing acid loss.

And yes lithium ion cells with any lithium metal in them are potential fire hazard, as bad as nickel metal hydride with any hydrogen stored...