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In Sweden (and probably most of Europe?) you simply hand them in for the battery recycling at your local recycling station. People would get shocked if you threw batteries in the normal garbage. W...
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Lundin
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2024-04-08T13:12:48Z (8 months ago)
In Sweden (and probably most of Europe?) you simply hand them in for the battery recycling at your local recycling station. People would get shocked if you threw batteries in the normal garbage. We stopped doing that in the early 1980s somewhere and the transition from NiCd to Alkaline and NiMH didn't change this. So to me it sounds like you live in some development country where garbage recycling is lagging 40 years behind... It is even frowned upon to place batteries together with the electronic junk recycling and it's preferable to remove them and recycle them separately. There's typically a [little bin](https://i0.wp.com/vastrasicklao.se/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/wpid-20150208_140536_1.jpg) at each recycling station where you can leave them and they accept all chemistries including Li/Ion variants. The only thing you can't hand in there is big stuff like car batteries, which would have to be taken to the recycling center.