What is the best way to get rid of bad lipos?
Just been cutting off the wires and wrapping with insulation tape.
Is there a safer way than burying them in the back yard
Bunnings.
They have a battery dispopsal bin, upon entry.
accepts all types of batteries.
Just wrap up the wires…and drop it off.
On a weekend…good excuse to grab a snag.!!
I guess for you city folks, but Bunnings is 220klm away for me.
I safely dispose of mine by incineration. Trial by fire. No rubbish collection at all.
Be careful cutting the wires, crossing pos and neg will get instant code brown.
They do not explode in a fire as some Karens think they do.
I put them on a fence posts and use them for target practice 
then into the bonfire with whatever’s leftover!
Last time I checked my local Bunnings didn’t accept lithium polymer batteries because of the high risk of fire. I asked at the service desk and got a hard no.
I do know Battery World stores take dud lipos, that’s where I take my dead ones.
I’m with Bob on this one 
Good way to dispose of 'em if you live out the back of bumf*ck somewhere, I suppose. 
Somehow I think my suburban neighbours might get a bit freaked out if I started popping off at lipos with a .22 
They only explode when in a confined space and the gases can not escape.
For eg EV’s and sealed home battery packs. Firies can’t extinguish the fuckers and why dump trucks are directed to unload immediately in the middle of your road ASAP.
The compaction on the dump truck as they are concealed sets them off as it is enclosed space, touch pos and neg and off she goes.
The gases need to escape. Or they build up pressure and oh my god it’s exploding and makes breaking news but being in the industry of things electricution I know a bit better than the average bear.
Out in the open a Lipo will huff and expend it’s gases, they never explode. Only in sealed, confined spaces. Not the plastic outer liner just burn that and give Greta ToonBurger a call.
Also the recycling for them burnt down few years ago and the company has pulled the pin and not rebuilding so it all goes landfill now besides your local bottle and can recycling centres.
Exactly mate, as I keep telling everyone, that there’s not a SINGLE company in the entire world that can “recycle” Lithium Batteries. 
There’s plenty of companies collecting and storing massive amounts of Lithium Batteries, purely in the hope that the technology might be invented one day soon and they will sitting on a “goldmine” of stock…
… but the sad truth is that there’s absolutely ZERO technology to do anything with these LiPo waste products, and a quick Google search will show you MANY LiPo battery storage facilities going up in a disastrous ball of flames completely destroying EVERYTHING around them for eternity. 
So much for “Green Energy”. 
Yes exactly, there is a big warehouse full of “recycling” in Melbourne that the gov was trying to get going after their modern recycling centre burnt down a few years ago to cater for things like Lipo’s and such.
Just read up what the status is of that few weeks ago and nope, the company has pulled the pin on rebuilding as they can’t afford it after burning down once already. It is not going to happen now.
Everything goes landfill currently. Besides your local bottles and cans recycling.
I have always put them in a container of salt water for at least 24 hours, checked they are fully discharged, cut the leads off, taped them up, and put them in the rubbish.
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