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Re:A “right to repair” movement tools up by Dylan16807 on Thursday September 28, 2017 @08:49PM (#15361968)
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.
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Re:A “right to repair” movement tools up by toomuchtodo on Thursday September 28, 2017 @09:32PM (#15362116)
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.
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Re:A “right to repair” movement tools up by Dylan16807 on Thursday September 28, 2017 @09:48PM (#15362179)
Do they recycle all of a lithium ion battery?
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Re:A “right to repair” movement tools up by ToFundorNot on Thursday September 28, 2017 @11:01PM (#15362443)
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.

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