GO GREEN? Hundreds of electric scooters pulled from Michigan river – Concern over ‘hazard of lithium-ion batteries being in the river…lithium, it reacts with water. It’ll actually ignite’
The Midwesterner: Mike Stout, president of the Michigan Waterways Stewards, told CBS News: “Then there’s the hazard of lithium-ion batteries being in the river. The toxicity, and any amount is not good for the environment, let alone hundreds.”
“Then there’s the hazard of lithium-ion batteries being in the river. The toxicity, and any amount is not good for the environment, let alone hundreds.”
“You look at lithium, it reacts with water,” Lowing added. “It’ll actually ignite. And so once these batteries start decaying in the water, in 20 years, 30 years, what’s going to happen?”
“This problem that we’re having at Michigan State or East Lansing is not unique just to the area,” Stout told the news site. “It’s in every city across the country where they’re being released, and there’s a waterway. So we have this problem in Ann Arbor and Detroit and Grand Rapids and Columbus and Cleveland and Portland. So we need to see a much-improved oversight.”
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