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Where to take a lithium battery you no longer want, and how to handle it safely until you do. Plain-English answers for Australia, with the "near me" step handed to the collection schemes' own live maps.
/recycling/
- Button and coin cell batteries: disposal and child safety — A swallowed button battery can cause serious injury in as little as two hours, and a flat one is still dangerous. How to store, tape and recycle them, and what to do if a child swallows one.
- Damaged, swollen or recalled batteries — A swollen or badly damaged lithium battery shouldn't go in a shop collection bin. How to recognise one, what the authorities say to do with it, where it can actually go, and what to do if it's been recalled.
- E-bike and e-scooter battery disposal — Where an e-bike or e-scooter battery goes depends on whether it comes out and how much it weighs. Where a removable pack goes, where a sealed one goes, and what to do if it's already swollen.
- How to recycle lithium batteries in Australia — For most household lithium batteries, where it goes depends on two things — whether you can get it out of the device, and how heavy it is. The answer for each, how to get a battery ready for the trip, and which maps to trust.
- What do battery recycling bins actually accept? — The battery bins at Bunnings, Woolworths, Coles and ALDI don't all take the same things. What each one accepts, what it turns away, and where the refusals go instead.
- Where can I recycle power tool batteries? — Bunnings takes power tool batteries at every store, free, at the front entrance. What to do before you go, what the supermarket bins say they take, and where the big packs go instead.
/nsw-battery-rules/
- Does the NSW battery stewardship scheme apply to my business? — If you sell everyday batteries into NSW, the new scheme may make you a brand owner with duties to meet. How to tell, what you'd have to do, the penalties, and who to ask.
- NSW battery rules: common questions — Short answers on NSW's new battery stewardship rules. Power banks, AA cells, phones, e-bikes, vapes, online sellers, the 24 kg threshold, penalties and new drop-off bins.
- NSW's new battery rules: what's changing, and when — NSW is making battery brand owners responsible for collecting and recycling everyday batteries, under rules that start once the NSW Government brings the Act into force. What the new rules cover, who they put duties on, and when to expect them.