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My shop's battery bin is full, and it's going to the wrong place.
Mixing them with regular waste risks soil and water pollution.
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susan_jones15d ago
Ugh, I'm guilty of that too sometimes.
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lee.noah15d ago
Honestly, just take them to any big hardware store, they always have a battery drop box right by the entrance. Susan_Jones, we've all tossed one in the regular bin when in a rush, but it's super easy to fix. Those things leak nasty stuff after a while, so getting them out of that mixed bin is key. A quick separate bag by your door makes it a no brainer for your next errand run. Really helps stop that poison from getting into the ground.
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lunaf1615d ago
Watch how often the right thing to do gets blocked by a tiny bit of extra effort. Like keeping a bag for batteries feels easy until you don't have a bag handy, so you toss it. I see it with plastic bags piling up because the bin is in the garage, not the kitchen. Or food scraps for compost that just go in the trash because the container is full. We set up these small hurdles for ourselves without meaning to, and then the good habit dies. It's totally the same with the battery drop off.
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rayking11d ago
Honestly I wonder if those store drop boxes @lee.noah mentioned even get emptied right, like what if they just get tossed with the trash anyway. That system failure makes individual effort feel kinda pointless sometimes. We might be better off pushing for better laws instead of just hoping stores follow through.
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