Recycle your Dell Laptop Battery
Recycling is one of the biggest
and highly important advocacies of today. It is logical,
simple and very easy to do. Numerous environmentalists
all over the world are encouraging people to save
the planet by not carelessly throwing their batteries
away, especially the rechargeable ones, and instead
make new things (beautiful and even useful things!)
out of them. Recyclable batteries may be found in,
among others, cordless power tools, cellular and cordless
telephones, video camcorders, digital cameras and
remote control toys and yes, in laptop computers as
well!
If you own a Dell
laptop or notebook computer, you ought to know
that you can always recycle your unit’s batteries.
Hence, if you think that your batteries have started
to act up, don’t throw them right away just
yet!
One thing you can do is to contact
Dell directly and ask if they can
replace your battery for a new one either for free
or for a nominal fee. Dell has what they call a “Battery
Program” and you might be qualified to avail
of a replacement.
Another thing you can do is to drop
by a recycling plant or at a drop off center of an
organization which aims to collect recyclable items
such as your Dell laptop batteries. Compared to the
days of old when people had to contact their local
sanitation department or go out of their way to go
to a recycling center (which, more often than not,
did not accommodate individual consumers), there are
national organizations now that receive these items
and ship them to a recycling or refurbishing facility.
Drop off centers are usually the branches of popular
supermarket chains, bookstores, computer retail and
repair shops, schools and home furnishings stores.
If you aren’t sure if there’s a drop off
center near your area, search online for some of these
national organizations (most of them have websites
and toll free numbers) or ask your local government
for help. Once the batteries reach the said state-of-the-art
refurbishing facility, reusable materials such as
nickel, cadmium and iron are taken and used in the
manufacture of stainless steel and even in the production
of new batteries.
You can do these two things in order
to recycle your Dell laptop batteries. Recycling them
is not just a way to get rid of what you think are
useless batteries. It is, more importantly, your answer
to the clarion call of keeping the environment safe,
clean and sound for the future generations.
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