{"id":436629,"date":"2026-02-20T19:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/436629\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:37:28","slug":"council-urges-public-to-recycle-batteries-in-bid-to-prevent-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/436629\/","title":{"rendered":"Council urges public to recycle batteries in bid to prevent fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 1.6 billion batteries were thrown away in the UK in 2022, according to RECAP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This included 1.1 billion hidden inside everyday household items such as phones, tablets, e-cigarettes, toothbrushes and power tools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When these items end up in general waste or mixed recycling, batteries can ignite or explode during collection, transport or sorting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since 2022, there had been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk\/residents\/waste-and-recycling\/battery-disposal\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">71% increase in waste-related fires, external<\/a>, with 1,200 in the past year alone..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 1.6 billion batteries were thrown away in the UK in 2022, according to RECAP. This included&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-436629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}