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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 […] The post ‘They burn white hot’: Lithium-ion batteries a growing risk for Bay Area recycling centers appeared first on Local News Matters .
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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 […] The post ‘They burn white hot’: Lithium-ion batteries a growing risk for Bay Area recycling centers appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s linked report, ‘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 […] The post ‘They burn white hot’: Lithium-ion batteries a growing risk for Bay Area recycling centers appeared first on Local News Matters .
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