Comment on Put a £5 deposit on vapes to stop fires, say waste companies
Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours agoThere are lithium ion batteries everywhere. I keep wondering about this all the time because they are just time bombs everywhere. I don’t just mean in the dumps or at the sides of roads either.
How many people have a bag of old phones sitting in their attic or a gazillion other things that have embedded lithium ion batteries in them that will have to off gas one day?
marl_karx@lemmygrad.ml 18 hours ago
batteries are less of a problem than accumulators (rechargable, eg in a phone) because accus discharge when not used