Actually there are useful parts. The actual radioactive material can carefully be removed and put in a "lead pig" if you are careful. Obviously needs to be done under controlled conditions but once you have a few of them they can be sent to a special waste facility as a single batch.
Bud that's illegal to do. Removal of the source from its unit is the act if making a orphaned source. Not to mention the danger one poses to themselves doing it. It's all dandy until someone like me has to come to your house to investigate why you got cancer from radioactive material, or to check every inch of your house to ensure you didnt just do something thatll cause us to box up parts or all of your house because of contamination.
Kitty Siren You do know that the tiny amount of Radioactive americium the alarm contains is no where near harmful unless you are touching it without glove or have eaten it. Look up Chernobyl, that alone couldn’t have ended the world
Do not do this. Even though the radioactive bit is tiny it is an exposed source, the chlorine in the plastic will volitalize the stuff Am241,and make ot airborne. Inhaled it is extremely nasty.
@@ericroy1880 not to mention the fact that the source material is in oxide form and surrounded by gold or silver foil only a few microns thick. Do not burn any smoke detector that contains rad material, actually that maybe considered a environmental crime to do such. The source material isnt hard to expose and can pose both ingestion and repository harm.
I just called Kidde (after being hung up on) and they said if the detector is at its end of life, just throw it away. So much for our environment! Thanks for nothing, Kidde! This video still doesn't tell us what to do with these things!
Fred Flintstone Give them to someone who wants them. A fire alarm collector, a mineral collector, or someone who owns a Geiger counter. Have a yard sale, and put them in a box marked free. Or just throw it away. No one will hate you for it.
