<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:19 PM, Sora Edwards-Thro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sora@unleashkids.org" target="_blank">sora@unleashkids.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.</div></blockquote><div><br>Context: Sora's talking about XO-1 white batteries from Haiti's original (government) batch of ~14,000 SKU24 XO-1 laptops from 2008.<br><br></div><div>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).<br><br>In Haiti I do not know what practices/options Very Regrettably.  Not that we can pretend to have all the answers back home:<br><a href="http://nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html">http://nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html</a><br></div></div><a href="http://nytimes.com/2016/01/12/opinion/despite-clear-dangers-dupont-kept-using-a-toxic-chemical.html">http://nytimes.com/2016/01/12/opinion/despite-clear-dangers-dupont-kept-using-a-toxic-chemical.html</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>--<br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ <a href="http://unleashkids.org" target="_blank">http://unleashkids.org</a> !</div></div>

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