BATTERY DISPOSAL

I now have 2 old batteries from G4 iBook for scrap.

Is there anywhere to get rid of these in a "green" way?

I notice that with all the wonderful technological advances in battery design we hear about, the life of the batteries has gone down from 5 years to 3 years, over the period 2004 to 2012.
Progress?

I beleive that the retailer / manufacturer has a responsibility for this as well as the local authority.

The reason that the life of these batteries has gone down is largely because the cells are smaller and lighter to meet cunsumer demand, are manufactured down to a price, sold at a large margin (it is Apple after all but all manufacturers do this) and the compromise they arrive at doesnt have a terribly long lifetime.

Lithium Ion cells don't like living in a hot environment (and laptops are hot!) and are a limited number of charge / discharge cycles.

If you don't use the battery all the time one of the recommendations (I havent tried it so I can't guarantee it) is to have it 80% charged and keep it in a plastic food bag in a fridge at around 5 degrees!

Your local recycling centre should have a section for battery disposal...

Any large electrical retailer should accept these for recycling. Take them to your local PC World.

Edit: Here's a link to find your nearest battery collection point.

Edited by deleted (Tue 03-Jul-12 09:26:25)

Waitrose?

Tesco

Not much help to you, but our weekly recycling collection takes batteries.

Local recycling center perhaps?

Lidl