Re:A “right to repair” movement tools up
by digi_owl on Thursday September 28, 2017 @07:28PM
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Batteries can be consumable after a fashion, as they lose capacity with each charge cycle. The effect can be reduced via certain techniques (depending on the battery chemistry involved), but so far never completely eliminated. Just consider it entropy in action, really.
Re:A “right to repair” movement tools up
by andrewkozak on Thursday September 28, 2017 @08:32PM
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Is there any way to reclaim the resources in a "used up" battery to reintroduce them to the production chain?
Re:A “right to repair” movement tools up
by Dylan16807 on Thursday September 28, 2017 @08:49PM
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You absolutely can, but it's currently not cost-effective. On the other hand it looks like it's cheap enough that making it mandatory or putting a recycling deposit on batteries would be viable.
Re:A “right to repair” movement tools up
by toomuchtodo on Thursday September 28, 2017 @09:32PM
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Are battery recycling programs near you not feasible? Our local Home Depot and Best Buy stores will take back rechargeable batteries for recycling for free.
Re:A “right to repair” movement tools up
by Dylan16807 on Thursday September 28, 2017 @09:48PM
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Do they recycle all of a lithium ion battery?
Re:A “right to repair” movement tools up
by ToFundorNot on Thursday September 28, 2017 @11:01PM
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Very little of the physical (the lithium). However all of the precious materials (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_recycling#Lithium_ion_...).
It's not worth it to extract the lithium, monetarily speaking.
Are phone parts "consumable"? I thought "consumable" meant refers to things that get "used up" like milk, ink, pens, etc., not storage media or LCD screens or the like...