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Conversations around lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and fires in the waste and recycling industry are ramping up as more data becomes available and more reports are published. But what will it take [...]

The past two months have been the worst on record since I began reporting waste and recycling facility fire incidents in 2016. In March, we incurred 31 reported fire incidents, which is still [...]

January, February and March are in the rear-view mirror, and although the first two months of the year were par for the course, in March, we incurred 31 reported fire incidents, the [...]

I am sure you are sick of hearing that 2020 was a year like we have never experienced in human history. The global pandemic has forced “change” across the globe that has affected all aspects of [...]

When I started consolidating the reported waste and recycling facility fires in 2016, I was realistic that the first few years would drive the baseline data defining the scope of the problem, [...]