A box of bad batteries

I found these batteries at VHS in an unmarked box.
These batteries are starting to dissolve and are dangerous. When lithium batteries go bad they tend to explode with fire.

When recycling these batteries they should be placed into individual bags (one battery per bag) and brought to a battery recycling depot like shoppers drug mart or best buy. I am posting this to warn other people about bringing lithium batteries to the space.

I am also giving notice that I will be recycling these batteries in a week if they are still there. If these are your batteries please recycle them or bring them home, but you should really recycle them.

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Good find (well, bad, but good to find). London Drugs also recycles batteries, and there is a location in Olympic Village.

Those batteries are ones I pulled from that muddy laptop someone donated.

It hard to take you seriously because if bagging each individual battery is a real legitimate concern why didn’t you do that then?

And why did you not put the lid back on it? Because they were stored safely in a sealed plastic container and arranged in a manner that they couldn’t short.

I’ll be bringing them to london drugs for recycling. Thanks @Shane

To give the “bad” or ignorant person that did this and put the space at risk, the opportunity to take them home if they wanted them. I don’t though out stuff without posting it here just incase.

This is a teaching opportunity for others about the dangers of not storing lithium batteries properly.
I am glad they are getting recycled properly.

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Storing lithium ion batteries in a container as such is safe.
However, you didn’t put the lid back on and that’s a complete unsafe manner to leave them in.

Thanks for the perfect example of what not to do.

Stop it, seriously.

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Okay, both of you were right and wrong, at the same time. Now instead of bickering about who killed who, go make something awesome! Make things, not war and all that.

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