[Power] Disposal of unsafe batteries

[Adam Holt]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:19 PM, Sora Edwards-Thro <sora at unleashkids.org>
wrote:

> What are the best practices for disposing of batteries that are coming
> apart? I could attempt to take them back to the U.S. but I'd prefer if at
> all possible to find a solution that would work on the ground here.
>

Context: Sora's talking about XO-1 white batteries from Haiti's original
(government) batch of ~14,000 SKU24 XO-1 laptops from 2008.

The improper disposal of toxic e-waste Ghana is a well known tragedy,
receiving proper publicity at last in recent years (read up on Agbogbloshie
etc).

In Haiti I do not know what practices/options Very Regrettably.  Not that
we can pretend to have all the answers back home:
http://nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html
http://nytimes.com/2016/01/12/opinion/despite-clear-dangers-dupont-kept-using-a-toxic-chemical.html

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