Household batteries can cause fire in recycling trucks

That bag of household batteries you’ve been setting aside to recycle? Better hurry.
The county won’t collect them after Saturday, March 12 — the next county household hazardous waste recycling day. Many municipalities are following the county’s lead.
According to Alan Johnson, county director of solid waste and recycling, none of the companies that bid on the contract to haul household hazardous waste from the county’s recycling collection days will accept them any longer.
Johnson told members of the county Solid Waste Advisory Council on Feb. 15 that state Department of Transportation officials put restrictions on hauling household batteries Asus a32-f3 battery Asus a42-w1 battery after a couple trucks loaded with them burst into flame when the terminals of batteries that still had juice in them lined up and built sufficient heat.
To haul them away for recycling, Johnson said, the DOT now requires that the batteries be taped at both ends to prevent fires.
That makes collection impractical, according to Johnson, who said that in the past the county typically collected 12-18 55-gallon drums of batteries at each collection day, about 500 pounds of batteries each. The recycling haulers would have charged the county $400 per drum to tape the ends and handle the batteries properly in accord with the new rules.
The good news, though, is that batteries Hp pavilion dv2200 battery are no longer considered the hazard they once were. Johnson said that battery companies and the hazardous waste industries claim that batteries have become so benign that they can be tossed into regular trash.
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The county will collect the batteries one last time, Johnson said, because a number of school districts and municipalities have been stockpiling them. He sent a notice to municipal officials detailing the change on Feb. 23 and offered to have county staffers pick up batteries at local recycling coordinators are stockpiling so that they can be disposed of during the March 12 event.
When High Bridge officials announced at the Feb. 24 council meeting that batteries Compaq tc4200 battery will no longer be collected at the Public Works building, resident Brent Dugan said he fears excluding batteries from recycling will hurt efforts by the county and the municipalities to recycle 50% of solid waste.
“We’re going to lose poundage on our recycling and increase poundage in our garbage,” Dugan said.
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