Lithium Battery Recyling Plant Erupts in Flames
Sometimes even when you’re contributing to a worthy cause…accidents just end up happening.
The need to take any and every measure to keep batteries from ending up in landfills has been well documented by The Battery Times; which is why news such as this is disheartening.
According to several major news outlets, firefighters were battling a blaze Saturday night at a Toxco Waste Management Facility in southeastern British Columbia. The large fire broke out at about 4 p.m. Saturday at the battery recycling center near Trail, B.C., a city about 600 kilometres east of Vancouver.
The latest reports had five fire companies fighting the stubborn blaze, which had spread late Saturday night to the company’s recycling facilities. Toxco’s plant recycles materials from lithium batteries and produces zinc and other metals from alkaline batteries. Toxco is North America’s leading battery recycler and has been recycling single-charge and rechargeable lithium batteries used in electronics devices and industrial applications since 1992.
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