My Clearwater
Comic Con Lithium-ion Batteries Are
Winter l Spring 09
Hazardous
This year, the Clearwater Public Library System
will join forces with the Parks & Recreation
Department to host the annual Comic Con,
which happens from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday, March 5, at the Ross Norton Recreation
Complex, 1426 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. in
Clearwater.
There will be more than 60 vendors, artists and writers.
Stop by for free, family-friendly fun for all ages. Be sure
to dress up as your favorite superhero, villain or anime
character, and participate in the costume showcase.
Learn more at MyClearwaterLibrary.com.
Electronics can pose a serious danger if they
are placed in the trash or recycling
containers. Many electronic
devices these days include
lithium-ion or rechargeable
batteries, which easily combust
in trash trucks or at recycling
facilities. This poses a
major hazard for city solid
waste workers and can
halt processing at recycling
facilities for weeks at a time.
Between 2016 and 2019,
fires in facilities continued to
increase each year (and most
recently by 26 percent!). This
negative trend is likely
to continue, due to
higher prevalence of
technology that uses
lithium-ion batteries,
such as smartphones,
tablets, laptops,
cameras and strobe
heads. And when fires halt
operations in recycling facilities,
the recyclables can’t get sorted
and sold, which means they
often are redirected to the
waste-to-energy facility or a
landfill.
Do your part, and dispose
of your electronics properly.
Pinellas County offers
dropoffs at the Household
Electronics and Chemical
Collection. For more information,
visit MyClearwater.com/Recycling or
PinellasCounty.org/SolidWaste.
/MyClearwaterLibrary.com
/Recycling
/SolidWaste