Don't put batteries in the bin!

[JessPlaysGames]

@spotify95 @pinkteddyx64

I work at a recycling plant. We take shit that people thrown in the bin (the bin lorries dump their shit here) as well as other stuff, and we sort it into piles of stuff: paper, wood, metal, plastic, brick, and shit (everything else)

We were doing this today (note that the pile of shit can reach over 100 degrees, enough to boil water!) on the conveyor belt, and different people pick their certain thing out of the shit (mine was paper, brick, and wood)

The person on shit threw a pile of shit, and missed where it was supposed to go. Then he noticed it was smoking so we pressed emergency stop, told everyone about the fire, and put it out with fire extinguishers. If he hadn't missed, the whole place would have burnt down!

We found the culprit: a glowing red, smoking battery

So don't put your batteries in the bin!

[spotify95]

@spotify95 @pinkteddyx64

I work at a recycling plant. We take shit that people thrown in the bin (the bin lorries dump their shit here) as well as other stuff, and we sort it into piles of stuff: paper, wood, metal, plastic, brick, and shit (everything else)

We were doing this today (note that the pile of shit can reach over 100 degrees, enough to boil water!) on the conveyor belt, and different people pick their certain thing out of the shit (mine was paper, brick, and wood)

The person on shit threw a pile of shit, and missed where it was supposed to go. Then he noticed it was smoking so we pressed emergency stop, told everyone about the fire, and put it out with fire extinguishers. If he hadn't missed, the whole place would have burnt down!

We found the culprit: a glowing red, smoking battery

So don't put your batteries in the bin!

Obviously it still had some charge left in it because batteries that are dead won't have enough energy to do that!

If it started smoking, it sounds as though it might actually be Li-Ion instead of a standard alkaline.

But anyway, there's a reason why there are battery recycling containers in most shops - use them, not the standard waste bins!

Note: I read up in an article in my local newspaper about a fire starting in one of the recycling/waste trucks that collect the rubbish. The culprit? Someone had thrown a Ni-Cd battery out in the waste instead of recycling it via a recycling point!

(Though ideally, batteries shouldn't be thrown out first without going through me first, or at least being checked on a meter to test the voltage. That way, there wouldn't be half as many batteries landfilled as there are now.)