A trip to the New York City recycling facility should be a simple cruise between one borough and another. That is not the case when people put rechargeable or Lithium batteries in their recycling.

A recent fire on one of the barges transporting batteries to the City’s recycling plant in Brooklyn just reinforces the problem with people needing to pay attention to their recycling procedures.

Remember folks, no batteries in the recycling…unless you want to eliminate recycling facilities from the area….We have already had two plants burn to the ground…we don’t need a third.

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How a floating trash fire in New York exposes a threat to national recycling efforts