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Help the recycling effort of batteries by getting a standard
color printed on the battery.
This colour will indicate the chemistry of the battery and
therefore make it easier to sort by humans or optical
equipment. Even the wider public might get behind the
standard. Large collections of
the same chemistry
batteries should (In theory. Form factor might still be a
problem ) make it a lot easier to reprocess.
The world of consumer electronics is only going to get
bigger and so too battery consumption, in all their forms.
Trying to retain the active chemicals in some sort of
repetitive cycle of manufacture and reprocessing makes
environmental and use sense.
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I like the idea but most batteries do state what they're made of on the label. |
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Yes it does, right there on the bottom of the box after monosodium glutamate. This would make it easier. |
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This would be good, except if they changed the colour
association after many years of doing it one way - eg,
changing it so that green no longer means cheese and onion
crisps. |
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the solution, then, is to develop a cheese-and-onion based
battery. Cheese is a good insulator, and onions are full of
electrolytes, so I can't imagine this being much of a
challenge. |
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I like it, but i also want to reserve the right to make my own batteries and dispose of them responsibly. |
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//the solution, then, is to develop a cheese-and-onion based battery// would this be called Cheese-'n'-ions? |
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(the cations would be in a little blue paper wrap) |
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Anions: -ive charge
Cations: +ive charge
Onions: 0 charge. |
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"...I can't imagine this being much of a challenge."
As long as you're not using Swiss cheese. |
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Maybe we should switch to Salt & Vinegar crisps. They're the
blue ones, aren't they? |
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Won't the battery companies get upset about not having their own identifying colours on their batteries? I think that you have to clarify that the colour would be in a band around the negative end of the battery, or some place where the battery companies wouldn't be upset about. |
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As for those cheese-and-onion batteries, I don't know how we're going to label them. Maybe food dye? |
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A new PP9 is tangy. A small QR code might work for auto-sorting. |
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I thought advocacy (in the MFD sense) had to refer to some pre-existing cause. |
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