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Republic Services urges residents to recycle correctly after lithium battery fires, highlights bulky-pickup and hazardous-waste options
Summary
Republic Services representatives told the City of Lake Havasu City on June 6 that proper recycling cuts landfill use and prevents fires caused by lithium batteries; the company described local recycling flows, bulky-pickup rules, and hazardous household waste days.
Jay Markle, general manager for Republic Services in Lake Havasu City, told attendees at a city "Coffee with the Mayor and City Manager" event on June 6 that local recycling is an active, off-site process, and that improper items put into curbside recycling contaminate entire truckloads.
“The recycling facility that Republic Services uses when they truck that 50 tons of recycling up to Las Vegas is that it's a state of the art system,” Markle said, and added that contamination can render a whole truckload unusable: “if I were to put in, something that should be trash in the recycling bin ... that whole truckload is contaminated.”
Republic Services’ operations manager Chris Klein warned about lithium batteries and their hazard when compacted. “Lithium batteries ... spark in our trucks when we're compacting the trash, and we…
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