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Andrew wrote:
On 25/02/2018 06:41, Bill Wright wrote:
On 25/02/2018 04:29, Graham Harrison wrote:

I need to dispose of a ten-year old laptop battery, which is no longer
needed as the laptop was decommissioned a couple of years ago.

Chuck them in the normal bin like everyone else does.

Bill

I live not far from a rubbish dump which recently caught fire (took 2
days to extinguish). They don't know what started it but their "best
guess" is batteries that had been put in the black bag instead of
being put in battery recycling.


Rubbish dump fires are really good. They reduce landfill.

Bill

There have been incidents where batteries in the normal rubbish
cause fires inside the bin lorry when it crushes the contents
down.

Isn't there a hillside in Wales which was a used tyre dump which is still
smordering after many years?

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from KT24 in Surrey, England