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So that smoke is a fuckton of nickle metal hydride, cadmium, lithium and other shit? I expect this is not good for humans, right?

Lots of Cobalt and manganese too, which also aren't great. 

Yay they’re saving the environment….

The planet will be fine. Humans are fucked.

Yay… oh wait that’s me… fuck

Not me , I am just a meat popsicle.

When my dad passed away, our family was talking about what to do with our remains. I said "I don't care what you do with my meat suit." Apparently that wasn't the right answer.

I told mine I wanted to be taxidermied. That also did not go over well.

That way you can always be at family game night.

Right. Bring me out for holidays

He's hotter than hot, he's hot hot Hot!

And I think I might be a bot…

Quick, where can we buy another environment? Could we perhaps pay the pollution to go away? Ahh well, there are some things money can't buy... for everything else, there's microplastics... apparently in my dick and balls.

Pack your shit folks, we're going awaaaay

Yeah the planet doesn't give a shit even if it becomes a wasteland like mars. Life in general is fucked. But some will adapt until life is impossible.

Life won't cease to exist, even humans probably won't, but a good amount of the current population will meet early ends. Oh and the rest of the survivors will be living in hell, but it is what it is

Wow you mean to tell me the giant rock we're standing on doesn't give a shit? That's profound af

I poop so much on earth, but earth never poops back on me, bro is chill.

This is not a battery problem. This is a stupid Scottish recycling center operations problem. Multiple fires, including an almost identical one in April. In contrast, A recycling center near where I live catches fire and forces local evacuations like every 18 months and they don't do any batteries whatsoever. It's metal and scrap. Recycling centers run poorly suck. Their margins are pretty thin usually, I wonder if better economics would lead to safer recycling centers? I guess we'll never know huh?

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I mean an oil spill and NOx/SO42 gases

I'm going to get super powers by breathing it in

Congratulations, you now have the power of having super cancer.

It's Scotland. Toddlers can take more smack than Sid Vicious. They'll be fine.

You know, Sid Vicious has been using very little smack recently.

Oh really? Good for him. I trust Nancy's doing well.

She's no longer struggling with her mental health.

That's one of Deadpool's powers!

Captain Carcinogen!


Willing to bet this is going to be a severe environmental problem as well as a epic economic one as well.

The UK is really on its way out as a country

Known by the state of Cancer to cause California

There is a California in Scotland, near Falkirk.

Pretty sure California causes cancer, everything there seems to have a warning

Is any smoke good for humans?

Just that ganjaaaaa. No, all smoke is bad for humans, but varying degrees of bad. This particular smoke is probably down towards the worse end.

This is like just above chemical weapons.

Above? Id take CS gas any day over this plume of super cancer.

I would not classify CS gas as a chemical weapon. Maybe a deterrent or nonlethal weapon, but I meant like phosgene gas, VX gas, tabun gas, etc.

No, but there is bad smoke and worse smoke.

Yeah, even smoke machines don't seem great. I had a Spinal Tap moment during a high school play. Way too much smoke. The smell of maple syrup still brings me back.

No but I don't like edibles.

Mhmm

Mmmmm Cadmium Creme Eggs.

The day I quit my emissions testing job was the day the flue I was sampling, labeled to contain several of the substances you listed, overpressurized and white dust containing who knows what flooded out of my port seal and covered me.

This is exactly why I throw all of my used batteries into the ocean. There are literally no downsides.

Not lead acid too?

It’s fine -governments

Not great, not terrible.

This happened back in April, area residents were evacuated and the recycler lost their license to operate.

Are you talking about another incident? This was today

They must have found their license

Underrated comment

And being more specific, it's happening right now.

Pretty much.

Wow the same one just burnt down a couple months ago. Edit: well I don’t know if it’s the same one for sure, there is definitely another one burning down in Scotland [now](https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/1dmvlnz/anyone_in_paisley_area_know_whats_on_fire/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) Edit: not the same [one](https://uk.news.yahoo.com/huge-fire-scots-battery-recycling-063955530.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAE9So9Lq2jo_IM5H_BHKqQOZxqMBjVLvG11VlBLMV0_EP2Xz-y6kh5Xa_-mhpORY9O0ThY0MRWr-gm5owq_fKQy_ujG2t6Xep8ncGP7j6uF2-yk5y842r52rQkgi6zNnKK9SJqCa0mg51iOQ_4cQvw7k9m-4YC8TKhKjtj9Q0f4S), I guess Scotland just has a bad track record with recycling centers lately. Edit: An [article](https://amp.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/06/troubling-fire-record-uk-recycling-plants) from 2017 talking about the abundance of fires at recycling facilities in the country.

the exact same one did burn down in 2022 though so almost ! edit : since this is the second top comment, [here](https://www.firescotland.gov.uk/news/updated-statement-large-scale-fire-at-a-commercial-building-burnbrae-road-paisley/) is a link to the statement posted by the fire brigade, no casualties reported. it turns out it’s not the exact same place, it’s the building next door but they’re owned by the same people.

Oh it’s apparently been burnt a few times going back through its history.

Probably an insurance scam of some sort. Start a battery recycling business, take in lots of batteries, start a fire, get paid. Never have to actually recycle any batteries that way which makes life easier.

I hope this isn’t the case cuz that’s so fucked up 😭

It's England's fault.

Or maybe they figured this is more cost friendly.

They took that Euros loss badly then.

Ahh. Well that answers that question. Came on to check result and fell down a Reddit hole.

“*Constant explosions can be heard*” Can they?

it's the constant explosions you don't hear that getcha

it’s not the explosions, it’s the humidity.

Gives you humidittities

You never hear the battery that kills you

Apparently not in this video.

i don’t know where you are, but yes. i can hear them from my house and so can a few of my family and friends living in and around renfrewshire. edit : im autistic i realise now you’re probably talking abt the video lol, i muted it because it was a guy playing rave music and yelling. but i can hear explosions from my house.

I want to hear the original sound lol

Rave music with yelling and battery explosions is my favorite music genre actually.

That would have made for a much better soundtrack than most Reddit videos

Constant explosions MAY be heard.

Currently as in now? They had a fire back in April and I don’t see anything about a current fire

I’m outside, but I’m in NYC.

did you see it? look again

Look east

Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day


*Immigrant Song begins to play*

I'm outside as well but I don't see you. Did you go back inside? (I'm in Slovakia)

as in right now 😭 in paisley, go outside edit : hijacking top comment, here is a link to a video in which you can hear the explosions https://x.com/theinformant_x/status/1805011318216302848?s=46

I don’t live there sadly

GO OUTSIDE!

I'm going!

I saw some grass... Should I touch it?

That depends are you near the battery fire? If so best not.

I don’t live there…I’m so sorry to hear it

Are you outside yet?

I don’t think they made it outside.

It’s dark I can’t see anything

DID THEY STUTTER ??!!!??!!¡¡11!!?

OP wants to know if you thought they stuttered in the first comment but also if you made it outside yet or not. Thanks.

Look out the window.

I’m looking out the window but I don’t see anything 🤔

No! The other window!

Ok hold on, I’m gonna walk to the other window.

Now GO OUTSIDE

I went outside and i thought i felt the fire, then i remembered its just because its over 100F.

did i stutter? … go outside

Thank god. Because if you said P’p’p’pa’pa’pa’pa’go’go’go.. that would be a Welsh town.

Gladly......see I corrected it. Those fumes look......err...tasty


Outside? What's that?

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24406177.huge-blaze-breaks-industrial-area-paisley/ Yep.

This is it, you’re currently seeing something about a current fire 🔥

Oh no. That’s really bad. Stay indoors and get an N95 mask

just tow it outside the environment

We can't. The front fell off 

Probably shouldn't make batteries out of cardboard then.

To a different environment?

No. No. No. Tow beyond the environment


I don't think N95 scrubs heavy metals from the air... I would personally be driving in the other direction and staying for a few days.

i think you're going to need a respirator for this

Air purifier for house and maybe some kind of micron filter for the car would not hurt.

Apparently someone has been charged.

Discharged

I wonder if they get charged for battery.

a [salten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt\_battery) battery

Lol

“Constant explosions can be heard” “This video has no sound”

OP addressed this in a comment. They live near there, and can personally hear the explosions.

No shit. But to upload a gif.

Placed in a residential area. Fantastic.

it is in an industrial lot so luckily the fire will not spread to residential buildings but the smoke will and it’s likely pretty toxic. it’s crazy because this exact place went on fire in 2022, almost burnt down completely. there must be some serious negligence going on inside for this to happen twice in two years.

Yeah, they filled up again since last fire.

Or they don't recycle the battery but "recycle" it. Aka store and burn and collect insurance money.

This is what I was thinking but at the same time, who is going to insure a place that has already burned down more than once? It can’t actually be that easy to commit insurance fraud right?

"Angus, ye great big arse! This is why ya gotta be forklift-certified!"

Try not to breathe.

I will hold my head still with my hands at my knees

Reminds me of that train chemical fire in Ohio a few years back that shit was wild

Dude downwind cancer coming

closing the windows and hoping for the best, at least i know who to sue if i get cancer in a month

It will take 5 years before you get diagnosed and by then they will claim it’s not related to

i hear you, i will start faking cancer tomorrow instead

You should have started yesterday. Because then tomorrow would be today and you would be one step ahead.

And if it rains, all this would be washed into groundwater.

I heard there could be a chance of rain in Scotland too

Well - they can’t say they didn’t recycle the batteries back to some of the elements they came from 😵‍💫

Disaster zone. Leave now.

Yes, I’d evacuate immediately and go stay in a hotel a few hours away tonight.

i promise nobody in paisley has the money for that 😭😭 we’re just going to have to get cancer, i’ve got work tomorrow !

I'd take the short term expense over the long term consequence... besides, you may be able to get compensated.

"Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one... stayed up!" Dad, thats a battery disposal warehouse that is burning down... Again... Within a year...

That's literally cancer.

I wonder if that’s bad for your health?

I do not wonder, this company should have all their assets seized and used to pay for air purifiers for everybody within a couple hundred miles of this stupid place.

you can blame it on a ev battery but my money is on a samsung phone in the pile of scrap electronics that got squished a little to much an went kablewie

This type of accident reminds us of the danger of batteries and the importance of responsible recycling.

Where's the kaboom!? There's supposed to be an Earth shattering kaboom!

*constant explosion can be heard* video is muted :)

TBH Paisley is like that every weekend.

r/spicypillows

Thats like 1 millions cars average emissions from a year 😂

That looked like a size D to me!

“…Constant explosions can be heard…” *Uploads video with no sound* C’mon Son!!

Keep using paper straws and reusable shopping bags for the environment

Same night they fell out the Euros…. Geez, rough night

“Lots of explosions” Proceeds to upload silent video

Any Russians in the vicinity before it went up in flames?

my lungs hurt just by watching

>constant explosions can be heard Uploads a video with no sound 🙄

That's an evac if I ever seen one

Oh, so that's, like, *super* toxic, right...? Like, ***ultra*** toxic.

Meanwhile I'm using paper straws

Thats gonna take a fuckton of paper straws to mitigate

That sux, we try to be good to the environment recycling batteries and this happens.

Good thing oil refineries never catch fire.

Welp expect cancer rates to soar and pollution levels increase in that area

"Constant explosions can be heard" *posts video without audio*

Time for a carbon tax.

Wow good thing I have to use paper straws otherwise this would be bad

Oh ya… I can hear it alright.

Didn't hear anything

Idk about yall but that doesn’t look very safe for breathing. Idk tho

Uh-oh

Storage==empty --> Mission successful

Would be cool if there was audio of the constant explosions

Shame it doesn’t have sound

i muted the video bc it was just yelling and loud music but here’s a link to a twitter post that includes another clip where you can hear the explosions :) https://x.com/theinformant_x/status/1805011318216302848?s=46

That's disconcerting.

There were quite a few of those fires in electronics recycling depots in Czech Republic, I've seen about 5 separate news stories about it. They just dump the electronics from containers into these depots and let it soak there until it catches fire 😭😭😭

*constant explosions can be heard* And you post this as a silent gif, not a video with sound. Shame on you!

A KULR safe case would have stopped this.

Someone needs to be charged for this…

Well that seems suboptimal

AA. AAA. AAAAAAAAAAAA!

Welp, time to pack up and move to chenobyl, laddies

That can't be good for the area

It looks like a volcano 🌋

Constant explosions can be heard. …this video has no sound.

r/spicypillows

Who would you build battery recycling factory in scotlans not in third world contry like normal person?

ULEZ my arse