Laughing gas canisters hamper Brussels waste disposal work

Discarded canisters of laughing gas – which people are increasingly using to get high – are causing damage to rubbish incinerators in Brussels.The empty containers of nitrous oxide are often just abandoned on the streets of the capital, where street sweepers collect them.In just the first three weeks of January, street sweepers collected nearly two tonnes of such canisters, De Standaard reports, of varying sizes.These have resulted in explosions when the canisters end up in rubbish incinerators.“Since October last year, we have seen a clear increase,” spokeswoman for waste collector Bruxelles Propreté told De Standaard.It has seen a clear li…