{"id":586,"date":"2013-07-08T12:02:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T19:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=586"},"modified":"2013-07-09T10:40:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T17:40:46","slug":"what-to-do-with-spent-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"What to do with spent batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do you know someone who tosses used batteries back into the drawer with the NEW batteries? What\u2019s up with this sick habit? I can explain. But first, let me complain. The next person, naturally assuming the batteries pulled from the new-battery-drawer to be new, finds that the appliance still doesn\u2019t work and starts down a completely wrong path to figuring that out.<\/p>\n<p><i>Now what? Do I still have the packaging for this thing? Are there instructions? Was there a manual? Where is it? Is it still under warranty? Shall I go online and find trouble-shooting instructions on their website? This is way too much hassle &#8212; is it worth it? Grrrr. I\u2019d come out ahead just throwing the stupid machine out and buying a new one.<\/i>\u00a0Etc.<\/p>\n<p>With luck and talent, they\u2019ll eventually figure out the problem is a new battery that is actually a dead battery. Meanwhile there went 45 minutes of their life that they\u2019ll never get back.<\/p>\n<p>Why does this happen? We could attribute it to careless and inconsiderate behavior; or to be more kind we could attribute it to a deep-seated aversion to tossing a battery into the garbage. On an intuitive and sometimes barely perceptible level, one senses that a battery is a bad thing to add to the landfills. So, lacking a better option, one throws it back in the drawer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-588 alignright\" alt=\"batterybag\" src=\"http:\/\/roomforapony.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/batterybag-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>For many people, the better option has to be easy or it won\u2019t happen. Now it\u2019s easy. You can toss your spent batteries into a paper bag and take them to one of two Whole Foods grocery stores in Portland &#8212; the one on NE 43rd &amp; Sandy, and the one downtown at NW 12 &amp; couch. They\u2019ve got <a title=\"Bettery.com\" href=\"www.bettery.com\">Betteryinc.com<\/a> &#8212; a company that is selling rechargeables, but you don\u2019t have to buy anything to stick your AAA through D sized batteries into the disposal slot of their kiosk.<\/p>\n<p>As for larger batteries, such as those for power tools and laptops, that\u2019s another story. More on that later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know someone who tosses used batteries back into the drawer with the NEW batteries? What\u2019s up with this sick habit? I can explain. But first, let me complain. The next person, naturally assuming the batteries pulled from the new-battery-drawer to be new, finds that the appliance still doesn\u2019t work and starts down a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[136,87,135,23],"tags":[137,30,92,138,91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}