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MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Garbage fires are not lone unpleasant, they tin beryllium highly costly and unsafe - but, the caller escaped artillery recycling drop-off centers successful Merced purpose to trim their likelihood.
Merced County Waste Management Authority (RWA) says they person created much than 20 drop-off locations for utilized aged batteries, including astatine assemblage centers, libraries, and different municipal buildings.
The discarded authorization says throwing batteries distant successful regular trash cans alternatively of taking them to hazardous discarded disposal facilities tin origin fires successful garbage trucks and astatine landfill facilities.
"The elemental enactment of recycling these items alternatively of throwing them successful the garbage tin forestall tragic situations and prevention important payer dollars successful exigency effect arsenic good arsenic biology mitigation from unnecessary pollution,” RWA said.
According to the EPA, determination were 65 fires astatine landfills and materials betterment facilities successful 2020 - 89% were decidedly caused by lithium-ion batteries (LIB), portion the remainder were reported as
likely caused by LIBs.
RWA has made recycling batteries much accessible and convenient to section residents to thrust these numbers down.
According to their website, the programme accepts a assortment of small, single-use and rechargeable batteries for free, including alkaline, nickel-zinc, nickel-cadmium, lithium-ion, and lithium fastener batteries, among others, that are not damaged, defective, oregon bulging.
For a afloat database of driblet sites, visit RWA online.
Funding is provided by a three-year national assistance done the Department of Energy’s Office of
Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains.
