Thought it might be a battery pack at first so I wasn’t going to touch it but it appears to be plastic.

Possibly broken at the top? Unsure.

  • Tar_AlcaranEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    I think these have basically always been carbon-zinc, or alkaline.

    Technically, zinc is a heavy metal, but basically harmless to humans unless you eat the whole thing. Alkaline batteries contain managous oxide, which is a heavy metal, but you’d need some serious chronic exposure to get into trouble from that.

    It’s still a good idea not to open random crap that washes ashore, because there are definitely FAR more dangerous things that come in small metal cylinders. Like unexploded ordnance.

    • essell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      19 hours ago

      Technically, zinc is a heavy metal, but basically harmless to humans unless you eat the whole thing.

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