'They Burn White Hot': Lithium-Ion Batteries a Growing Risk for Bay Area Recycling Centers
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'They burn white hot': Lithium-ion batteries a growing risk for Bay Area recycling centers
Joe La Mariana will never forget the night: Sept. 7, 2016. It was 8 p.m., and La Mariana was working out on his exercycle. Then he got the phone call. “It was a four-alarm fire,” said La Mariana, the executive director of RethinkWaste, a recycling and disposal agency that serves the San Francisco Peninsula. “Our materials recovery facility [MRF] — the place where mixed materials from recycling bins are sorted and prepared for sale — was burning.…
Joe La Mariana will never forget that night: on September 7, 2016. It was 8:00 p.m., and La Mariana was exercising on her static bike when she received the call. "It was a huge fire," said La Mariana, executive director of RethinkWaste, a recycling and waste management agency that provides services on the San Francisco peninsula. "Our material recovery plant (MRF), the place where mixed materials from recycling containers are classified and prep…
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