How a floating trash fire in New York exposes a threat to national recycling efforts – POLITICO
How a floating trash fire in New York exposes a threat to national recycling efforts – POLITICO
Man, I remember that time I once threw at lithium button cell into a fire years ago. That thing went bang and smelled awful chemically. I do not recommend. Those lithium batteries contain a lot of energy, and when they get shorted can release a lot of that energy in the form of heat, which is bad when it's a mixture of combustibles like paper or plastic for recycling. Lithium batteries are causing a lot of fires in garbage trucks and recycling plants alike.