Mystery Beep Provides Valuable Info

Yesterday I started hearing a muffled double-beep in my apartment.

It was annoying, but if I have any sound on I can't hear it.

Today it continued and got REALLY annoying.

So I turned everything off to determine where this mystery beep was coming from.

It's not in my apartment, it's outside in the yard behind my apartment where all the garbage is.

So I texted the super and said there's a weird beep coming from outside, does something out there need a battery change?

And I sent him a recording of the Mystery Beeping.

He called me a little while later and said as far as he can tell, someone threw out a smoke detector instead of just changing the battery. So the garbage out back is beeping, and those old smoke detectors are LOUD and it is blaring through the garbage loud enough to annoy me in my apartment!!!

I said to the super, I have 2 old smoke detectors that need disposal but I know you can't put them in the regular garbage because they are radioactive.

He said that's right, but our building has an electronics disposal bin!

I said what? How long has that been here? That's amazing!

He said about 2 years now.

WOW. Who knew!

I need to use this bin.

I have been holding onto old electronics simply because I don't know how/where to properly dispose of them.

I wish we had fabric recycling too, I also need that.

Stupid still-beeping smoke detector! IT IS SO ANNOYING!
But I learned something really cool!

The trash is going out to the curb tonight, so I don't have to deal with it much longer.