Hello,


In thrown away vapes, you can find rechargeble li-ion cells:

Bertus

 

Those things are ticking firebombs.

 

Big Clive is the best! His YouTube channel is informative and fun to watch.

 

Big Clive is the best! His YouTube channel is informative and fun to watch.

Is he the one who discovered the rice batteries?

 

Be extremely careful with these throw away batteries, they may have been damaged from being dropped on the ground, crushed or smashed during disposal. Even one fire while trying to pry one cell out of a vape pen can ruin your day or life.

 

Certainly anyone attempting to recover those batteries needs to follow a safe procedure, and to be ready to deal with battery ignition. That could be as simple as working outside and having a bucket of dry sand available, along with pliers adequate to grab the burning cell and shove it into the sand. So it is immediately clear that those "folks who lose-it" should not be recycling the lithium cells from the vape dispenser devices.