Don't put lithium-ion batteries in trash, Rumpke warns after garbage truck fire

Rumpke is asking central Ohio residents to properly dispose of electronics with lithium-ion batteries after a laptop apparently caught fire inside one of its garbage trucks, forcing the driver to dump his trash load in a gas station parking lot.

Rumpke reported the driver took"immediate and appropriate action" by driving the truck out of the apartment complex and pulling into the parking lot of a nearby Turkey Hill gas station at the corner of North Waggoner and Kennedy roads, where he dumped his load of trash. The cause of the fire was determined to be from a lithium-ion battery from a laptop improperly thrown in the trash, Rumpke said.

The New York Fire Department reports four deaths and 79 injuries in the city last year resulting from lithium-ion batteries. So far this year, NYFD says the batteries have been connected to six deaths and 139 injuries.

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