2024 It was “a year of growth”, according to the Fire supply company Rover fireBut this is not completely good.
The company that offers Fire detection and repression systems Based on thermal and visual imaging, smoke analyzes, and human verification, annual reports are released on waste and recycling firefighting fires in the United States and Canada to choose industry and media. In 2024, Fire Rover, based on the identity of fires, witnessed 2910 accidents, an increase of 60 percent from 1809 in 2023, and more than the weakness of the fire that was confirmed in 2022.
Publicly reported fire accidents in waste facilities and recycling also reached 398, which is a new rise since Fire Rover began collecting its report eight years ago, when this number was closer to 275.
Many things can cause fires in the waste course, a long time before the lithium -ion batteries become common: “fireworks, chemicals for billionaires and attack (barbecue),” Ryan Vigman, CEO of Fire Rover, writes in an email to ARS. But lithium ion batteries are an increasing problem, as the number of devices with batteries increases, consumer education options and disposal options remain limited, and batteries remain very easy and disturbing in the waste course.
It is possible that all the batteries that make them in waste streams are dangerous, because they have many ways to save them: hole, vibration, high temperature, short circuit, crushing, internal cell failure, excessive charging, or inherent manufacturing defects, among other things. The Fire Rover report indicates that the media often depicts batteries as “automatically” depicting fire. In fact, the nature of dealing with waste makes it almost impossible to ensure that there is no risk battery in the handling, as the report notes. Small batteries can be mobilized in the most eliminated elements – even Paper marketing materials distributed in conferences.
Based on his experience and some assumptions, Fujmanman is estimated that about half of the fires he follows arise with batteries. It writes nearly $ 2.5 billion of losses in facilities and fire infrastructure last year, divided between traditional risks and batteries.