Ideas/tips for safe disposal of leaked Lifepo4 batteries

[weirded]

I have 3 10 kWh batteries that failed catastrophically and need to be disposed. They’re mounted on a wall and weigh 220lbs/ea. I manually wrangled the first one off the wall and dragged it along my garage floor, but it left a streak of liquid. I cleaned it up with gloves but am now worried about handling the other batteries.

Any tips?

 

[OffGridForGood]

Do you have an engine hoist? (or borrow one, rent one) support the battery with the lift, detact from wall, heavy contractor bags to contain the mess, lower the battery onto a scrap pallet (in the bag) and put the pallet on a dolly or one of those small frames with four casters sold at places like Harbour Freight - roll it out the door.
Contact local waste/recyle centre to get the appropriate process for disposal.

 

[AntronX]

Liquid is LiPF6 Lithium hexafluorophosphate. Not carcinogenic but skin and lung irritant.

 

[AntronX]

You could try to remove bad cells and keep good cells to use or sell to someone for diy build.

 

[8milimeter]

Curious as to why the failed ?

 

[JoeHam]

Any ideas on disposal ?

Asking for a friend.

Trying to avoid this :

Perhaps more of these facilities will open :

Li-Cycle Opens Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Facility in Arizona

Li-Cycle’s battery recycling facility in Arizona commences operations with capacity to process up to 10,000 tonnes of manufacturing scrap and end-of-life batteries per year.

li-cycle.com

 

[OffGridForGood]

Curious as to why they failed ?

Search - OP has another thread on that topic.
and no, it was not due to the weight of the cells stacked on top of one another, see the discussion.

 

[Quattrohead]

Stick a Fedex label on them and get them picked up.....they will be lost soon enough

 

[Rednecktek]

Throw them in the garbage cans of that neighbor that gets on your nerves?



Second the Harbor Freight hoist, you'll want it for the new batteries too.