Didn't they make it almost impossible to recycle eWaste properly in the city? The nearest "station" from me that takes batteries is a best buy in Sunnyside and I'm in Ridgewood. Good luck convincing people to take a 2 hour bus ride just to get rid of their batteries. Why not do a similar program like the cans and bottles? Have collection machines and pay some small change for people to recycle. We're paying the recycling taxes anyways for these.

> Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh last Friday wrote to the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission, asking it to regulate lithium-ion batteries, including stopping uncertified batteries from entering the country and calling on manufacturers to make sure e-mobility devices only work with approved batteries.

This message brought to you by Apple. Vendor lock in is a piss on the right to repair bill that we just recently passed.

What kind of batteries? Alkaline? Or rechargeable? Asking cause I literally have a bag of alkaline batteries idk how to get rid of

They have to accept all batteries and small household eWaste. Car batteries you can drop them up at Walmart or AutoZone for a 20$ core refund.

I thought I remembered that time Best Buy had a receptacle for used batteries for electronics near the entrance.

I'll check again. It's been a few years but last time I went they told me they didn't take single use alkaline batteries and they also don't specify on their website

Alkaline batteries go in the regular trash https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/site/services/harmful-products/batteries-harmful

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Home Depot takes batteries for recycling.

Didn't know. Maybe we should make la list and put it as sticky for this kind of stuff.

Great I got to take a bus ride or walk 30 min then

Coincidentally, apple makes it super easy to recycle apple products with lithium batteries. Not talking trade in but like an old MacBook that you have hanging around that’s dead and not worth anything.

A 30 minute walk or 15 minute bus ride!? The horror!! 😱😱😱😱😱

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What kind of response is this? In "the greatest city in the world" you should be able to recycle electronics easily. Like, say, a secure and dedicated bin right in front of your house/building.

Ridiculing someone for not wanting to take a trip to recycle shit is a prime example of better-things-aren't-possible-brain and it's just tragic that so many people's vision has been narrowed like this

Ah yes, we should install a million receptacles across the city dedicated to electronic waste because god forbid someone take 30 minutes out of their day to be responsible with their trash.

... yes? Why should the burden be on the individual? Why shouldn't the city be providing more services for its residents?

It blows my mind that there are “New Yorkers” who are beside themselves for having to walk

To me, and probably the majority of New Yorkers who’ve had to walk many miles to do many different chores/leisure activities, a 30 min walk or 15 min bus ride is extremely reasonable for recycling electronics

The two of you strike me as people who actually enjoyed the lockdown so you didn’t have to leave your apartments. That’s really depressing

So the answer is “it’s always been this way, fuck ever making things better”? That’s the same shortsighted idiocy people use to justify being against student loan forgiveness

No, the answer is that this is such an insignificant problem that it really doesn’t warrant the time and energy spent on trying to improve something that really doesn’t need to be improved

Electronic recycling and student loan forgiveness are completely different orders of magnitude

Why doesn’t the government come and wipe my ass for me every time I take a shit? Why should the burden of being presentable in public be on the individual?

No such thing as a secure and dedicated bin out in public NYC, there's bound to be some asshole to ruin it for everyone. That's why you can't have nice things here no matter what.

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A 30 minute walk or fifteen minute ride is easy dude. Stop being lazy and get your steps in.

You reap the benefits of technological advancement, you are responsible for your waste. If you don't wanna recycle your batteries, don't buy machines with batteries.

Not going to vouch for the accuracy of the list -- may be worth calling ahead to check -- but there's this: https://www.call2recycle.org/locator/

(and the 311 website page that links there)

Weird how many of them happen on the top floor of the building.

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You're missing the point.

If the city wants to encourage responsible e-waste disposal, they should make the process as convenient as possible and promote the hell out of it.

Things like having more SAFE disposal events. Expanding battery pickup beyond Staten Island. Do more to promote the resources available via 311 to find drop-off locations. Do more PSAs to let people know how the recycling process works.

>calling on manufacturers to make sure e-mobility devices only work with approved batteries.

Manufacturers will interpret this as "approved batteries" being proprietary batteries only.

>The nearest "station" from me that takes batteries is a best buy in Sunnyside and I'm in Ridgewood.

From 311:

>All stores in New York State that sell rechargeable batteries or products containing them must accept rechargeable batteries for recycling. No purchase is necessary.
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>These types of stores include:
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>Hardware stores
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>Office supply stores
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>Drugstores
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>Electronics stores
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>Food stores with less than 14,000 square feet are exceptions and do not need to accept batteries.

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You don't have to go all the way out to Best Buy. Basically any hardware or office supply store will take batteries since they all sell products which use rechargeable batteries.

Even pharmacies that sell burner phones will take them.

Sorry, but given that I witnessed two separate people too lazy to hold onto their trash until they got off of the subway today, I don't have any faith in NY's ability to do that. If they want to promote battery recycling, it needs to be far more convenient than a 30 minute minimum roundtrip.

I use to be a bike messager in 90s without an E bike was it more annoying yes but it's not impossible. What's going to happen is eventually there's going to be a big fire that's going to do massive damage and the move to ban ebikes and scooters will begin.

So if they’re too lazy to walk 10 feet to throw out trash, how would the government spending millions to put a designated electronics recycling bin in front of every property help?

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Off topicish but the Q39 gets you from Ridgewood to Sunnyside in 30 minutes.

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Because the average person is not going to take 30 minutes out of their day to recycle batteries. If you're willing to do that, then great, but most people are simply not going to do that. How hard is that for you to understand?

Ok and if the average person is too lazy to throw away their garbage at one of the receptacles on every corner, or too lazy to hold it until they get off the train, why would they give a shit if there’s a receptacle for electronic recycling outside of their home

The people who recycle anyway WILL take a short walk or bus ride to dispose of electronics properly. The ones who litter indiscriminately probably don’t even know you’re supposed to dispose of electronics a certain way, and definitely won’t start if a receptacle is outside their home.

Believe it or not, sometimes the issue doesn’t get solved by spending millions of taxpayer dollars for no reason