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Welcome to eco-battery.com. We are pleased to offer a wide variety of information about batteries, the technology, and their various uses. You can also find relevant information about the ecological damage traditional batteries cause to the environment and the reasons the search for a more Earth-friendly solution is on-going.
Batteries power many, if not all, of the appliances you use every day. At its most basic, a battery is a connected series of two or more electrochemical cells that store and generate chemical energy and make it available as electrical energy. Physicist Alessandro Volta created the modern battery in 1800, now referred to as voltaic piles.
Batteries are made to be either disposable or rechargeable. The types of electrochemical cells include flow cells, galvanic cells, electrolytic cells, fuel cells, and voltaic piles. Heavy metals lead, mercury, and cadmium are all used in the manufacture of batteries.
Batteries have become one of the most expensive and wasteful (albeit convenient and portable) sources of energy. Due to the rampant and unrestricted use of batteries, toxic metal pollution has become a global environmental issue. To reduce the amount of disposable batteries ending up in landfills, some companies have implemented recycling programs to recover valuable elements and safely dispose of the toxic parts.
Here in the 21st Century, cell phone batteries, laptop computer batteries, camcorder batteries, camera batteries, and battery chargers have become absolutely essential in America, if not all over the world. Watches, cars, clocks, mp3 players: all powered by batteries.
Take peoples’ portable power away from them and there could be serious insurrections all over the place. However this does little to change the reality that humanity’s increased usage of these products has created some serious amounts of dangerous waste.
Inform, Inc. reports that in America alone, approximately 179,000 TONS of batteries are thrown away every year and about 14,000 tons of those are rechargeable. Inform offers the following tips to reducing battery waste:
• Buy products that eliminate or minimize battery use.
• When buying battery-powered devices, avoid unneccessay luxuries (such as full-color screens on a PDA or a cell phone that also doubles as an mp3 player).
• Choose rechargeable batteries for all appropriate applications.
• Look for and buy products that can be powered using rechargeables.
• Maintain your batteries (when not in use, remove batteries from devices you don’t use as often).
• Try reusing batteries in low-drain devices (if the battery in your digital camera – a high-drain device) dies, try using it in your television remote control, etc.)
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