{"id":93,"date":"2018-12-18T15:26:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T15:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2018-12-18T15:27:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T15:27:11","slug":"what-not-to-do-with-lithium-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/what-not-to-do-with-lithium-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"What NOT To Do With Lithium Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next time you think of just throwing out your old smartphone, think again\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever wonder why it\u2019s illegal to throw away your electronic and smart devices? Not only is it bad for the environment, it can be dangerous &#8211; \u00a0and deadly. Lithium batteries can be volatile and easily catch fire, sometimes numerous times as these teens found out the <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/WNT\/video\/laptop-explosion-caught-security-camera-45275096\">hard way<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Why do Batteries Catch on Fire?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The beauty of lithium batteries is they hold a considerable charge, they\u2019re lightweight and can be found everywhere \u2013 in your laptop, smartphones and other devices. However, they have a thin protective coating that when punctured, can cause an explosion or fire. So recycling that smartphone or storing it away in your top dresser door could eventually lead to disaster. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How to Minimize the Risk of Fire?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avoid overheating your devices. Don\u2019t store them in the glove box in a hot car. Love to fall asleep to YouTube? Make sure your smart phone isn\u2019t under the covers with you. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let go of obsolete devices \u2013 store photos in the cloud and get rid of that old phone safely. (<a href=\"https:\/\/shipndestroy.com\">ShipnDestroy.com<\/a> will show you how!)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NEVER put your smart device in the garbage or recycling bin \u2013 they can easily puncture and cause an explosion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avoid over-charging your device. Lithium batteries are designed to run on one charge throughout the day. Use the original charging device your smartphone or laptop came with to reduce your risk. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can always count on Ship n Destroy to safely destroy your smart devices, hard drives and computers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you think of just throwing out your old smartphone, think again\u2026 Ever wonder why it\u2019s illegal to throw away your electronic and smart devices? Not only is it bad for the environment, it can be dangerous &#8211; \u00a0and deadly. Lithium batteries can be volatile and easily catch fire, sometimes numerous times as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/what-not-to-do-with-lithium-batteries\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shipndestroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}