Arlington Heights Fire Department officials believe the Dec. 6 garbage truck fire and explosion that injured three first ...

NHVR Chief Operations Officer Paul Salvati has called for greater battery disposal education practices to be implemented in the community to reduce the risk of garbage truck fires.

The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) and Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR) wants to keep batteries and consumer ...

Today is National Battery Day, the holiday you never knew existed. It celebrates the ubiquity and usefulness of batteries by honoring their inventor, Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, born Feb. 18, ...

FOURTEEN garbage trucks caught fire last month in Sydney, prompting a waste industry leader to warn that his sector is on ...

The investigation found lithium batteries ... rolled out to 21 community recycling centres statewide. Batteries like this incorrectly disposed of in household bins are believed to have caused ...

Emergency services have warned of “an alarming spike” in lithium-ion battery fires after a Sydney man was killed by a blaze ...

With the affects of load shedding pushing solar installation in South Africa to its peak over the past few years, so came an ...

A tall pile of electric vehicle batteries stands in the courtyard of the recycling plant of ERLOS Produktion und Montagen, ...

Lithium ION batteries are not intended to be disposed of in household garbage or recycling bins and instead must be taken to a separate recycling center or a household hazardous waste collection ...

A bin lorry was forced to dump its burning load onto a Leicestershire street after batteries sparked a fire inside the ...