[NSRCA-discussion] Battery Recycling...Batteries Plus

[Atwood, Mark]

Another option is a company called "Call2Recycle"    http://www.call2recycle.org/

They will send you a collection box, and then pay the shipping to send them batteries or old cell phones for them to recycle.   We have done this at a few local contests so that people could bring their old batteries and dispose of them.  You simply need to fill out a form, they send you a collection box (and bags for each battery), fill it, and ship it back for free.  Very easy.

I believe Jay is correct though, once you've made Lipo's inert by soaking them in salt water, they can go out with the regular trash.


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On Jun 17, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Jay Marshall <lightfoot at sc.rr.com<mailto:lightfoot at sc.rr.com>> wrote:

I may be wrong (probably am) but I didn’t think there was an issue with LiPo batteries, just NiCad. Just throw them in a bucket of salt water, then into the trash after a period of time.

Jay Marshall

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I think that Best Buy also will take them.  Their local stores here have bins at the entrances.

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Same here. I dropped off a pretty sizeable bag of spent lipos at Radio Shack and they just took them with no questions asked.

On Jun 17, 2013 12:26 PM, "astropuppy" <astropuppy at gmail.com<mailto:astropuppy at gmail.com>> wrote:
My local Radio Shack  takes them too.

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Phil S. <chuenkan at comcast.net<mailto:chuenkan at comcast.net>> wrote:
Um, out of where, Keith????  lol

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On 6/17/2013 11:58 AM, Keith Hoard wrote:
Sounds good, but I prefer billowing smoke and shooting flames.
Keith Hoard
Collierville, TN

On Jun 17, 2013, at 11:56, "Richard Lewis" <humptybump at sbcglobal.net<mailto:humptybump at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
I recently acquired a new electric pattern plane and it came along with some good batteries and some very tired batteries.  I needed to dispose of the tired batteries.

I read a ton of articles on the web about the various home grown disposal methods...the discussion seems as broad, varied, and full of misinformation as a snap roll debate on this list...

Anyway, I googled battery recycling and found that Batteries Plus (http://www.batteriesplus.com/) has retail stores nationwide that accept almost any type of battery for recycling.  I called my local store and the guy said that they would take lipo's for free as long as I brough them in a box....

I took in about six 5S packs with the leads cut and taped and explained that they were hobby batteries and I did not know if they were charged or not (I know some had a partial charge).  He looked in the box and said "no problem".  He took my box and I left...

A lot easier than any method I have seen on the web...seems like a good choice for those of us that live near enough to civilization (aguable??) to have a retail store within a reasonable distance....

Richard
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