The 1.3m disposable e-cigarettes discarded every week often end up in general waste and their broken batteries are highly flammable
that they are struggling to insure their facilities. Some are now using artificial intelligence to detect vapes and their lithium-ion batteries, as well as installing thermal imaging cameras and automatic foam jets.
Research by Material Focus, a non-profit organisation which runs the Recycle Your Electricals campaign, found that more than 700 fires in bin lorries and recycling centres were caused by batteries that had been dumped into general waste. The ones they don’t catch can end up in their non-recyclable waste stream with items such as Pringles cans, plastic wrappers and disposable coffee cups. These are chopped and packed into bales, a process that can break open a lithium-ion battery, which can then easily catch fire. Grundon has had three or four fires in the past year alone at just one site.Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer
Insurers have become reluctant to cover the waste industry because of the fire risk, with premiums growing and expensive fire safety systems now a requirement. Artificial intelligence is another option.“We have a box that has a camera inside and we take continuous images of the waste stream, then use AI to detect and analyse those images,” said Mikela Druckman, Greyparrot’s chief executive.
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