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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Peter Brewer

After truck fires and a gutted facility, batteries are a bin problem

After one hugely expensive lithium battery fire on Boxing Day last year which set back its recycling plans for years, the ACT government certainly doesn't want another.

And yet potentially all it takes for another thermal runaway, like that which destroyed the Hume Materials Recycling Facility, is just one careless consumer.

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