Responsible Disposal for old E-Cig parts?

[Dishona]

Ok- now that I've been into this for over a year and have spent a fortune - I am happily vaping along without any relapse and grateful for it!!
But, in my quest to never be without something to smoke and a credit card that keeps on cruising the net - I have amassed a huge collection of the following:
- almost dead batteries (but if I got stuck - I would use them instead of lighting an analog)
- almost dead atomizers (but if I got stuck - yadda, yadda, yadda)
All kinds of little metal pieces and stuff. Now the metal I can just throw away, but where I live, you cannot put batteries in the trash or the recycling.

I say what the ECF community needs is a responsible way to dispose of all the vaping left-overs - someplace that will take the dying batteries and atomizers from us all and make old tires for the gorillas at the zoo to play with - or something out of them - what do you think? Any suggestions from anyone out there?

 

[six]

Lithium Ion Batteries are categorized as non-hazardous waste by the EPA so you can toss them in the trash.

Attys are made of steel or aluminum, nichrome wire, non-lead solder, and silica strands for wick... nothing hazardous.

 

[yzer]

We have curbside recycling where I live. We get two trash cans. One is for ordinary household garbage that goes to the landfill. The other has two bins: one for paper, the other recycled containers like glass, metal and plastics. In addition the green waste (lawn and garden refuse) is piled and picked up near the curb.

The waste disposal company has other programs as well. Once a week there is a hazardous waste drop-off that I use often. I maintain a wooden boat and recycle solvents used for oil-based paint and varnish.

Used batteries can be dropped at the waste disposal company for recycling or at the Ace Hardware we have in town. The only condition is that batteries must be sorted and placed in a plastic bag by type. So, I'd have a bag of dead alkaline batteries in on bag and worn-out Lio-ion batteries in another.

 

[ozpkchris]

batts can go in the many battery return bins at Homedepot, lowes, office deot ect...

my atties, go in the regular recycling,
i trash my cartos

we could use a better way for recycling cartos

 

[Natalia]

If you don't have a recycle center near you, V4L will accept batteries for recycle by mail (not just their own). Scroll down to "NOT LOCAL?" in the following link.
LINK

Hope this helps.

 

[yzer]

I toss my old cartos into household trash for the landfill.

I don't know how to recycle these. I use stainless steel cartos exclusively and maybe they could be recycled with the food cans. However, the cartos have steel bodies, aluminum bases and the fiber filler. I'm not going to bother with taking each one apart and I doubt that the recycling center would bother, either.

 

[DaveP]

Lithium Ion Batteries are categorized as non-hazardous waste by the EPA so you can toss them in the trash.

Attys are made of steel or aluminum, nichrome wire, non-lead solder, and silica strands for wick... nothing hazardous.

As long as I have vaped, I have never heard that Li-ion batts were environmentally friendly. I Googled it and found out that you were right!

Lithium-ion battery - Ecopedia

Safe for Landfills

As per the US federal government classification, lithium-ion batteries are termed as non-hazardous waste, safe for municipal water stream disposal. Lithium-ion batteries consist of copper, cobalt, iron and nickel metals, which are considered to be safe for landfills and incinerators (waste material combustion). Additonally, lithium ion batteries contain lithium in environmentally-safer ionic form instead of the lithium metal.[3]

 

[Dishona]

I had no idea these batteries could be just trashed - thanks so much for the feedback!