Yesterday while cooking I set off the smoke detector, no I did not burn anything. They go off when I cook over a high heat. And yesterday once they started going off they would not stop. I ended up having to disconnect them all (they are hard wired with an interconnect) and I replaced them this morning. Aaaaaaaand let me tell you, I had a sleepless night last night knowing there were no detectors installed.
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Genuine question, how do you dispose of these properly?
We have limited electronic recycling options that I’ve found. When I brought my old detectors in, they sent me away. I suppose I could break down the plastic vs the circuit components and recycle the plastic.
What do you all do?
What do I do? Landfill. Nobody near me wants the ABS housing even if I pried out the electronics and the radioactivity of ionization alarms is too low to need hazardous waste disposal. There are so many more impactful things to care about than recycling two or three smoke detectors every ten years.
You keep it until the next hazardous waste collection day, then put it in your car to bring there. Spend half an hour waiting in a big line of cars, get up to where they take it and get yelled at for wasting their time on such a small amount of hazardous waste
I put things like this in a box labelled “I don’t know how to recycle this”, then I put that box in the corner of the least-used room in the house, where I won’t see it often.
Along with many empty medication bottles.
Exactly, that is a “next of kin” kinda problem
See if you have a local household hazardous waste recycling program. If not, check with the fire department if they’ll take em
Your city should have a solid / chemical waste collection point.
…i smashed mine into tiny pieces of shrapnel when it wouldn’t stop beeping, then swept the debris into the dustbin: engineer’s hammer…