I have an interesting article from Mainstreet.com. Check it out.
No one warned me that becoming a parent would make me the biggest consumer of batteries on earth.
Swings, bouncy seats, music-playing mobiles and monitors all require disposable batteries and use them up with astounding speed. That’s on top of the other things in the house, like flashlights, remote controls, a wireless keyboard and mouse and so on, that need batteries. All told, I find myself in Radio Shack almost monthly to get 12-packs of AAA and AA batteries. And we haven’t even entered the stage of battery-powered toys yet.
According to the GreenYour … Web site, Americans buy some 3 billion batteries a year, or 32 per household. About two-thirds of these wind up in the trash, where cadmium, nickel and lead can leach from landfills into groundwater or be released into the air and water during incineration. There’s more…