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  1. Some people are c@nts, others like the ones throwing scooters off the bridge lack the warmth and depth to even be called that.

  2. Probably not ideal.. I mean there could be electric eels in there and I assume they need recharging at some point

  3. Conscious_Ad9612 on

    They’re doing us a service. The batteries in them charge the electric eels way better than car batteries ever could.

  4. bruhhhhhhhhhhhh_h on

    The steel frame is marginal impact on a chemical sense.

    The batteries have a number of toxic materials, as well as metals / trace elements of nickel, manganese, cobalt, lithium and other trace elements.

    Many of these, especially some solvents are omega nasty and have a bioaccumulation effect – meaning they can never break down through biological processes, and animals / biological processes higher up the food end up ingesting huge volumes of these chemicals. The compounding affect if means that if your fish’s food’s food’s food ingested some, then all in the chain will be affected getting more exponential the higher aggregate steps achieved.

    Away from the batteries, capacitors (especially electrolytic) and other electronic components are no good.

    TL;DR

    It’s very bad and fucky to the environment – but not going to cause a whole of ecosystem impact with such small scales

  5. ClassicBit3307 on

    I button lithium battery in the soil will contaminate 1 cubic meter of soil for the next 500 years. Lithium is ready to life. Now do the maths on a scooter and you quickly see the potential risk to life, human and otherwise. This is why ALL batteries and cells should be taken to a recycling point and under NO circumstances should be put in ANY bin at home.

  6. I notice that Lime etc are not collecting them from under the Riverside Expressway either. Surely council could get someone to collect them and then bill the scooter companies for recovery?

    What is scary is these are just the ones we can see. Imagine how many are disappearing into the mud

  7. The lime app now says every now and then if you don’t return helmet possible 50dorrar charge. They’re newer bikes where helmet locks back in better. Still this woke me to the helmets being everywhere too. Now all I see is green helmets not just the obvious wasteful lime scooter discarded in an odd spot

  8. Yeah it’s not good for the river but considering it’s only short term and these scooter companies come to retrieve them very quickly

    I don’t know why people throw them in the river personally I would prefer it if we could throw the idiots in the river that leave them sitting in the middle of a path or disabled car parks blocking people’s way instead of putting them to the side out of people’s way

    On a lighter note I think we should be able to take pictures of them send them to a website and whoever parked in a stupid spot gets charged for someone to come out and move it to a safe spot through the council

  9. Hopefully enough of them so the companies are losing too much money and shut up shop. Vain hope, but at least then the environmental damage would have a positive outcome