jon f mn
Well-known Member
The company I work for also does roll off dumpsters and operates some landfills and does recycling. Today we had a company wide safety meeting concerning batteries. Seems like lithium batteries are very flammable and will self combust. They recently had a fire in a landfill caused by them. The recycling facility right across the street from the shop I work out of burned to the ground recently and they just blamed that on lithium batteries too. One of the larger garbage companies, I don't remember which, claims to be having an average of 3 fires related to lithium batteries per month. Not only will they self combust, but water makes it worse unless they are completely drown in water. So the new company policy and the policy of all local garbage companies is that all batteries must be recycled and not thrown in the dumpster. This is especially a problem with construction companies throwing took batteries in the dumpsters. So be careful with your lithium batteries. They are in tools, most all phones and computers, battery cars and many other things.