SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. – Early Friday morning, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), issuing a product recall for the HALO Bolt ACDC 58830, quoting “Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire and Burns.”
While many households do not own the recalled product, Project Manager Ben Hagerott of Spokane County Solid waste says Lithium Ion batteries (at the center of the CPSC recall) are in many household tech items.
In fact, Hagerott explained everything from smartphones, to watches and to power tools use those batteries.
“We will take batteries, bring them in,” Hagerott said. “Regardless of what you know about it, bring it in.”
Hagerott says when these batteries are thrown in the trash, instead of taken to disposal facilities. They regularly cause fires.
“Yes, we expect to have battery fires due to Lithium Ion batteries,” Hagerott said.
That’s why he’s encouraging people to bring their technology to his, and other, facilities, especially as holidays could mean new items, and sticking the old technology into a drawer or in the trashcan.
“You know, and you might gain some space in that truck to be a little something else,” Hagerott said.
Households can drop off batteries from 7-5:30 at the Spokane Valley facility, seven days a week.
It does not cost anything to drop off materials.
For more information on safe disposal options, residents can contact local waste management facilities.
