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How to get rid of swollen laptop battery? (lemmy.world)
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I replaced my laptop's battery after it was swollen. I found out that services like call2recycle do not take swollen batteries since they are potentially hazardous material. How can I get rid of that damned spicy pillow? In Dallas. Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestion and tips guys. I have bought lipo fire resistant bags for the batteries. As stated in suggestions here, most of the places like Home Depot, Best Buy, Lowes do have a recycling program; but some of them have disclaimers regarding not accepting swollen batteries. I plan to go to Batteries and Bulbs, Best Buy asap; they look most promising.

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[–] Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My comment will not help you of any way. But I find it interesting that the current regulation in France (maybe Europe?) is that any store that sells electronics (and home appliance) has to take old electronics (and home appliance) for free.

Actually everybody pays a small fee when buying electronics. The tax changes regarding the difficulty to recycle the appliance. For example, the tax for a freezer is 13€ since you have to purge the gas, where it's 1€ for a vacuum cleaner.