{"id":337416,"date":"2026-03-09T19:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/337416\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:18:07","slug":"warning-as-fuel-can-with-petrol-left-in-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/337416\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning as fuel can with petrol left in recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents placing potentially explosive items such as batteries into household rubbish and recycling is a growing problem, according to Joe Warren, station manager for community safety at Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Fire and rescue services across the country are attending an increasing number of fires at waste sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really important that we all do our best to help prevent these fires, as they can be very dangerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Dispose of materials and devices correctly. In particular, rechargeable devices such as vapes, mobile phones, tablets, laptops and e-scooters, all of which contain lithium-ion batteries, should be disposed of responsibly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These batteries can cause intense fires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Also, fire accelerants, such as petrol, must be disposed of properly via specialised hazardous waste sites, and never left unattended in a public place.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents placing potentially explosive items such as batteries into household rubbish and recycling is a growing problem, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-337416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}