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
He said: “Fire and rescue services across the country are attending an increasing number of fires at waste sites.<\/p>\n
“It’s really important that we all do our best to help prevent these fires, as they can be very dangerous.<\/p>\n
“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
“These batteries can cause intense fires.<\/p>\n
“Also, fire accelerants, such as petrol, must be disposed of properly via specialised hazardous waste sites, and never left unattended in a public place.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents placing potentially explosive items such as batteries into household rubbish and recycling is a growing problem, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-321119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}