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Lithium-ion battery fires a growing problem for Bay Area recycling centers

Lithium-ion battery fires a growing problem for Bay Area recycling centers
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Joe La Mariana will never forget the night: Sept. 7, 2016. It was 8 p.m., and La Mariana was working out on his exercycle. Then he got the phone call. “It was a four-alarm fire,” said La Mariana, the executive director of RethinkWaste, a recycling and disposal agency that serves the San Francisco...

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