@eBikeChick Your note spurred me. Since I'm following the #ebikeBatteryFire issue, I wondered if its a problem outside of #NYC so I did a web search with the search term: battery fires -NYC
I found this interesting article.
https://www.tuvsud.com/en-us/resource-centre/stories/lithium-ion-battery-fires-myth-vs-reality and articles saying you shouldn't throw any lithium battery be it a #cellphoneBattery or a #vapePenBattery in the trash.