Waste haulers say improper disposal of lithium batteries causing dangerous fires

Everything from computers to power tools now contain lithium batteries and that has created a sometimes explosive situation for waste haulers. Ames Resource Recovery Plant assistant superintendent Mark Peebler says it is very dangerous to throw lithium batteries into the regular garbage. “There’s several different cells in there, and each cell is separate. When those […]

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