If the waste extinguisher disposal method is improper, easy to cause an explosion, do not dispose of without authorization.

At present, there is no national and local compulsory regulation on who should be recycled. As a result, some fire extinguishers are recycled by waste collection stations or refurbished by small black fire extinguisher workshops. Once re-entering the market, it is very dangerous.

Suggestions from the fire department: extinguishers that have been clearly specified for retirement must be forced to be scrapped when they reach the retirement.Scrapped fire extinguishers should be collected to manufacturers or regular fire product testing and maintenance center for centralized treatment. Scrapped fire extinguishers should be disposed of in such aspects as pressure relief, punching and complete cylinder removal.

Here are eight tips for detecting fire extinguishers :

There is a fixed number of years from the use of fire extinguishers to scrapping, so how to know whether the stored fire extinguishers have been scrapped?Fire extinguishers in one of the following 8 situations should be scrapped.

1. The cylinder body is seriously corroded (the corrosion area is greater than or equal to 1/3 of the total area of the cylinder body), with pits on the surface.

2. The cylinder body is obviously deformed and the mechanical damage is serious.

3. There are cracks in the head and no pressure relief mechanism.

4. The flat bottom structure of the cylinder is unreasonable.

5. Portable without intermittent injection mechanism.

6. There is no name of the manufacturer and the date of production, including the nameplate falling off, or the name of the manufacturer cannot be read clearly despite the nameplate, or the steel seal of the date of production cannot be recognized.

7. There are tin-welding, brazing or patching marks on the cylinder body.

8. Burned.