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After a phone battery recently caught fire in a Tulsa garbage truck, the city is sharing safe alternatives for throwing this “e-waste” in the trash. “When electronics with self-contained batteries are crushed in a garbage truck, the results are dangerous,” the city said.
Monday, December 9, 2024, 9:25 PM
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TULSA, Okay. –
The city of Tulsa is asking people not to throw electronics with self-contained batteries in the trash or trash because it is dangerous.
The city said a cell phone thrown in the trash caught fire when it was crushed in a garbage truck recently.
“It was only thanks to the transporters’ quick action that they were able to prevent a disaster by dumping the cargo on the street and extinguishing the fire,” the city wrote in a post online.
The city said a battery also caused a fire at the largest recycling processor in Tulsa in 2021, damaging equipment so severely that the plant was closed for a year.
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