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Council members and residents press recycling education after lithium battery ignited truck
Summary
At a council meeting, residents asked how recycling-education funds are used after a lithium battery in the recycling stream caused a truck fire that officials said destroyed a roughly $600,000 vehicle; council discussed using program funds for performance and public education but took no formal action.
Speaker 2, a resident, asked the City Council how the recycling education program’s money is being spent after a recycling truck recently caught fire when a lithium battery was thrown into the stream.
The resident asked, “is that some of that, like, how the program money get spent for whatever education they're providing or buying?” and said a recycling truck was lost, adding, “We lost the, what, $600,000 truck.”
Speaker 1, a council member, and other participants treated…
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