I was cleaning our a drawer and found an old cell phone with a swelling battery. I know i can’t/shouldn’t throw it away but because it is swollen recycling seems to be off the table as well. I found a place that would take it but they wanted $150 for the packaging to make it safe to mail.

I’m in north-west Louisiana. How do I get rid of it.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    The Crux of the standard US problem is that nothing is standard.

    So you’ll have one person in a county that has its shit together swearing that we’re set and another person from a county that doesn’t have potable water asking for advice.

    The capitalist answer is some store have decided there’s money in getting people in to recycle so voluntarily corporate chain stores are the closest we have to a country wide state of handled it.