• GardenGeek@europe.pub
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    8 hours ago

    Garbage trucks aside… I truly wonder what will be happening to all those vapes thrown into the countryside when they degrade eventually. Will we have regular fire seasons due to corroding batteries?

    • Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 hours ago

      There 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
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        5 hours ago

        batteries are less of a problem than accumulators (rechargable, eg in a phone) because accus discharge when not used