What is the relationship between discarded mobile phone lithium-ion batteries and junkyard fire event?

According to foreign media reports, as for many users, changing the smartphone has become an activity every year or every two years. After changing a new phone, how do people deal with the old phone? Throw it away? This may be not a good idea. Perhaps taking it in a drawer will be safer.

Recently, the national recycling project Call2Recycle tell the press that USA Today, discarded cell phones lithium-ion batteries need to be responsible for 65% of the 2017 California landfill fire. To make matters worse, an explosion battery could cause a chain reaction leading to the fire of mass destruction and causing casualties.

California USA Today pointed out that it has become a very prominent problem, for this reason, the state this week launched an urged users to properly handle the mobile phone. This video is in Portland last December a rubbish dump:

USA Today also singled out five cause of lithium-ion battery has not been properly handling and fire occurring in Queens, New York, which lasted 2 day time, and the other four are having to make long island rail four feeder was forced to shut down.

From the above all it is not hard to see the importance of lithium-ion battery properly handle. In fact, the chain stores such as Home Depot, the Loews, best buy has corresponding recovery activities, so users can consider to put them into the special processing bins.

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