{"id":608845,"date":"2026-09-23T04:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608845\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T04:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:26:09","slug":"tasman-battery-disposal-warning-after-fire-at-richmond-resource-recovery-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608845\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasman battery disposal warning after fire at Richmond resource recovery centre"},"content":{"rendered":"
The council said the incident happened while a customer delivered a large quantity of batteries. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhile helping the customer to place the batteries into the battery collection bin, a staff member saw one of the batteries ignite,\u201d the council said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe fire resulted in several battery components being thrown into the air, forcing the customer to quickly move their vehicle away from the collection area.\u201d<\/p>\n
Battery parts flew into the air during a fire at Tasman recovery centre. Photo \/ Tasman District Council<\/p>\n
Staff responded promptly, and the incident was safely brought under control, they said.<\/p>\n
The council said it \u201chighlighted key safety concerns\u201d and outlined why they could no longer receive batteries at their Service Centres. <\/p>\n
They said the circumstances surrounding the battery failure were being \u201creviewed\u201d to identify opportunities for improving battery handling and fire risk management procedures.<\/p>\n
They said people with unwanted batteries should take them to their closest Resource Recovery Centre in Richmond, M\u0101riri, Murchison, Collingwood or T\u0101kaka to use specially designed battery disposal bins.<\/p>\n
In March, Auckland Council had recorded at least 35 battery-related fires across its rubbish trucks and recycling facilities since the start of last year.<\/p>\n
That included one in Lynfield, where the truck had to dump its burning load on the street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council said the incident happened while a customer delivered a large quantity of batteries. \u201cWhile helping the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,68,1975,6081,138,299993,11519,1550,5205,40490,7557,6381,2079,31091,296,18087,111,139,69,1881,8995,33740,2224,1455],"class_list":["post-608845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-after","tag-air","tag-at","tag-battery","tag-business","tag-catapult","tag-causing","tag-centre","tag-council","tag-disposal","tag-district","tag-erupted","tag-fire","tag-fragments","tag-into","tag-issued","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-recovery","tag-resource","tag-richmond","tag-tasman","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608845","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=608845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}