Batteries are indispensable for modern travel since they power everything -- from smartphones and laptops to medical devices and even e-cigarettes. However, their potential of lithium batteries to ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A man was left with second-degree burns on his hand and waist after an e-cigarette battery exploded in his pocket. It happened outside a French nightclub.

The lithium in e-cigarette batteries is the same highly sought metal used to power electric vehicles and cellphones. But the quantities used in vaping devices are too small to warrant salvage.

Items with lithium-ion batteries, like e-cigarettes and vape devices, can be dropped off for free for proper disposal. The Household Hazardous Waste facility at 10300 N. Seamans Gulch Road is open ...