{"id":55388,"date":"2025-08-03T13:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/55388\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T13:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:46:11","slug":"athens-police-warn-about-the-dangers-of-throwing-batteries-in-trash-or-recycling-bins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/55388\/","title":{"rendered":"Athens police warn about the dangers of throwing batteries in trash or recycling bins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ae08e2f28559c8730a0f0e0d6c4a9701.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Athens police are asking the public to remember that throwing batteries in the trash or recycling bins is dangerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Batteries are the number one cause of fires in the Athens-Clarke County Solid Waste Facility and the trucks that carry material to it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One misplaced battery can spark a fire on a garbage truck, leading to $60,000 in damages and endangering the lives of workers and the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Batteries can catch fire if they overheat, are crushed, punctured, or short circuit by having something touch both the positive and negative terminals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There are several locations around the county where you can safely recycle batteries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ACC Solid Waste- 725 Hancock Industrial Way<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ACC Landfill- 5700 Lexington Rd<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire Station #2- 275 Cleveland Rd<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire Station #9- 1650 Danielsville Rd<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire Station #8- 3955 Jefferson Rd<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Batteries are also recycled at UGA Battery Recycling, Lowe\u2019s, Batteries Plus, and Best Buy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/smart-tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wsbtv.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athens police are asking the public to remember that throwing batteries in the trash or recycling bins is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[9246,192,41922,29653,79],"class_list":["post-55388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-athens","tag-environment","tag-garbage-truck","tag-recycling-bins","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}