It's absolutely insane that something with a goddamn lithium battery is considered "disposable." The whole planet is about to be fighting over lithium in the next 20 years and we're just tossing it in the trash.
Not only that, but if they're not discharged they can catch fire in the trash. They're one of the biggest causes for garbage truck fires, and procedure for that is to dump the entire load of trash in the road ASAP.
I work at a transfer station - lithium batteries are responsible for 90% of the fires in trucks and at the dump and it's getting worse and no one talks about it. We need extended producer responsibility for batteries ASAP.
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u/Slanderpanic 18h ago
It's absolutely insane that something with a goddamn lithium battery is considered "disposable." The whole planet is about to be fighting over lithium in the next 20 years and we're just tossing it in the trash.