Batteries and devices can cause fires when placed in household recycling or general waste bins. This puts drivers’ lives, trucks, recycling facilities and workers at risk.
If it buzzed, hummed, flashed or charged, it’s got a battery! There are many places to take things like loose batteries, laptops, mobiles, watches, shavers, drones, electronic toothbrushes and even cordless tools.
Many people collect loose batteries and drop them off when visiting local supermarkets, office supply shops, local libraries and more.
There are many convenient battery drop-off locations for everyone. Use the following B-cycle link to find your nearest drop-off point: Find a B-cycle Drop off point - B-cycle
The City of Kalamunda also have recycling hubs available at various locations to drop off batteries, mobile phones, printer cartridges etc.
Visit our fact sheets page for more information on battery disposal and visit Waste Sorted's article sharing how waste workers feel when a battery fire starts.
The image below is an example of when a vacuum has caught fire in a wheelie bin and caused a truck fire.
Cleanaway Bin Placement
This short video helps demonstrates and gives some helpful tips for correct bin placement to assist Cleanaway Services to collect residential household bins.
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