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Single-use e-cigarettes contain batteries that last hundreds of cycles despite being discarded (techxplore.com)
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[โ€“] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A few of us electronics hobbyists have been collecting them (when found discarded on the street) to harvest the battery for re-use in other projects.

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Yes they're nasty, but I pick them up with a dog poo bag and clean them before cracking them open to get the battery.

[โ€“] ScaredDuck@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

For anyone wanting to learn more there's a bigclive video covering the extraction process.