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Environmental advantages to rechargeable batteries. Safety advantages to quality rechargeable batteries.
Low Discharge NiMH AA and AAA Batteries Add Simplicity to Rechargeable Power
In November of 2005 Sanyo introduced the “eneloop”. It was called a new battery that would replace the dry cell battery for the 21st Century. It has become part of a new generation of nickel metal hydride batteries, promoting a new lifestyle - one where disposing of batteries becomes one of reusing and recycling.
Other quality manufacturers such as Maha Energy and AccuPower have joined in this new true revolution in portable battery power. Some very high quality batteries are now available in conventional cylindrical batteries such as AA, AAA, C-Cell and D-Cell. 9Volt low discharge batteries are also waiting in the wings.
It has taken two years for these NiMH low-discharge AA and AAA batteries to rise to the surface. Of course, insiders have known about them for some time. It takes a wave of information backed by those who are willing to try new things in order for the birth of this new technology to follow its discovery and invention. So the waters have been tested and users everywhere are reporting great tidings.
When stored at normal room temperature (68 degrees F), it is generally claimed that these low discharge batteries retain 90 percent of their charge after six months, 85 percent after one year, and 70 percent after two years. This low discharge quality gives longer life to the battery as well.
Although they have hold their capacity longer, whether used or on the shelf, they are excellent for high drain or high energy requirement applications. Read More
Smoke Alarm Batteries - 9 Volt Lithium Batteries Last Longer
It’s time to spring forward with the clocks and time for many to run down to the market and buy 9 volt batteries for their smoke alarms. By using a lithium metal 9 volt batteries, you will not need to change the battery for several years.
Check out our 9 Volt Lithium Batteries or Smoke Alarm […]
Rechargeable Batteries Need To Be Recycled Too
So you’ve had some rechargeable batteries for a year or two. Goodness only knows how many batteries you’ve saved from the garbage landfills by using the rechargeable ones. It’s one of those things we cannot see because it did not happen. Literally thousands of batteries are being kept from landfills because people recharge their batteries more and more.
It would be great if there was some sort of “Battery Recycle Value” or “BRV” put on each battery purchased so when they are recycled the purchaser would be reimbursed, helping to encourage recycling. In the meantime, those of us who are willing will continue to make that extra trip to Radio Shack or wherever you take your spent batteries. If there was some kind of system set up for reimbursing for recycled batteries, we at …(More)
Recycling Batteries Making Progress in US and Canada
Canadian news has reported that the RBRC, The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation, has just announced a report showing there has been a twelve percent increase in recycling rechargeable batteries in the U.S. and Canada through the Call2Recycle program. With more than 6 million pounds (2.8 million kilograms) of rechargeable batteries recycled in the U.S. […]
Environment Filth and the Hazards of Not Caring
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We could get used to just about anything, I suppose. That is not always a good thing. It can be tempting to become numb to the problems occurring around us in our lives. With all the pressures we face in our economy and society, there seems little time to pay attention to what we do with the soda can or the energy drink bottle after consuming its contents. It can be a step up to make sure it reaches a garbage can. We know that our living results in our inevitable….(More) |
Lithium-ion Batteries Part One - Li-ion Batteries Can Damage Easily
The Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery is an actual powerhouse that packs a punch very much out of proportion to its size. What goes on inside the battery itself is very high, active electronics and chemistry, otherwise known as internal high resistance. The battery is very safe to handle and use but it is important […]
NEW PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES OVERWHELM RECHARGEABLE AND RECYCLING EFFORTS
“On average, each person in the United States discards eight dry-cell batteries per year”, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (http://www.epa.gov/msw/battery.htm).
It is estimated that Canadians will discard 500 Million primary (non-rechargeable) and rechargeable batteries up to 2010. This is up from 3.5 Million discarded in 2004.
The dramatic increase in demand for batteries has come […]
RECYCLING BATTERIES FEELS GOOD
I do not want to get ‘touchy-feeley’, gooey-ooey on you folks. The subject here is not about “Dr. Lankford’s opinion on the mood swings of recycling batteries”…, or even “how I feel about it…”
Change, and the perspective it gives down the road, is very interesting. For example, it really is different if someone has recycled their home trash for awhile, and then visits a friend who does not recycle. In helping them take out the trash, something is missing. Their trash is actually somehow dirtier. The garbage and cardboard and plastic bottles somehow just don’t belong together. There are vestiges of the guilt of having to do what one has learned not to do that come in. I just close the lid and try to forget about it because it is really not right for me to tell people how to do their trash. Things of that nature have a special time and place. It is none of my business…More…
