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Twerk from Home posted:My local government trash has a page where it says what to do with all kinds of batteries. They also spell it "nickle" which cracks me up nickle musk
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personally i can't say if recycling is good or bad until i get some new input from libertarian magicians
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I think alkaline batteries just get chucked in with scrap metal when making low grade steels. in the eu anyone that sells batteries has to also take in old batteries for proper disposal. so it's not hard to get rid of them. I also do some work for with a company that recycles it's plastic waste. there are actually quite a few that are worth processing and selling on. problem with consumer waste is different plastics are often combined in one package and difficult to sperate and are often contaminated. stinch fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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i'm not saying i'm in favor of falaka, but hell, since romania hasn't banished it yet...
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polyester concept posted:im terminally forgetful so i appreciate the places that still have plastic bags lol sure but those convenient plastic bags turn into forever microplastics your cloth bags will rot naturally like any other cotton
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El Mero Mero posted:someone gifted me a subscription to Ridwell, which promises that it can recycle a bunch of that poo poo that doesn’t count…the entire service stinks of tech scam though and I bet they’re not doing any of the shot they promise. Now I’ve got a dumb box outside my house for the next three months and an additional bin. Ridwell has done a few free things with our city. Was nice for them to take the styrofoam away vs spending Saturday driving to the styrofoam recycling place. There are quite a few places around here that will take (X) type of good for recycling/responsible disposal. But figuring out what goes where is kind of a hassle, and actually hauling poo poo to most of the places is definitely a hassle. I assume they’re doing that legwork. Front porch space is entirely too valuable to consider that dumb big box though.
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I don't know why anyone is using alkalines now that NiMH batteries are less than $1.50 a cell. As another plus, you will never again open a battery compartment to find a leaky corroded mess.
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what happened to that trash reactor they built in Sweden(?) a while back and why aren't we building more of those things we could unlock a virtually limitless supply of energy from my posts
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Sapozhnik posted:what happened to that trash reactor they built in Sweden(?) a while back and why aren't we building more of those things well, the easiest way to do it, incineration is an emissions disaster and other options vary in cost effectiveness. there’s also the problem of what happens when people put the wrong stuff in the trash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy?wprov=sfti1
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Shame Boy posted:village inn is the classy waffle house free pie wednesday!
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Twerk from Home posted:I don't know why anyone is using alkalines now that NiMH batteries are less than $1.50 a cell. As another plus, you will never again open a battery compartment to find a leaky corroded mess. lol i have absolutely had eneloops leak on me
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it's the secret of NiMH
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i've got a shitload of eneloop clones but i also have big boxes of alkaline AA's and AAA's. i'm not going to bother loving recharging the batteries in my coffee scale, and alkalines last like multiple presidential terms in storage
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the batteries in our bathroom clock are almost dead and it just pathetically tries and fails to move the second hand lol i could replace them but it's kind of entertaining to watch
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Shame Boy posted:it's the secret of NiMH Lol
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I swear battery leaks got way worse after we started using alkalines, is that actually a thing or just me being grumpier in old age?
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Jonny 290 posted:i've got a shitload of eneloop clones but i also have big boxes of alkaline AA's and AAA's. i'm not going to bother loving recharging the batteries in my coffee scale, and alkalines last like multiple presidential terms in storage i just have a bunch of AA/AAA eneloops and even if it’s something dumb like a coffee scale i’ll just swap them out every so often and the used ones go back into the recently-recharged pool just knowing that they’re rechargeable mostly keeps me from leaving them in stuff i don’t use for long periods so i haven’t run into any leaks yet
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posting on the page which people love to get stickers for but where i live it has a different meaning
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Wild EEPROM posted:posting on the page which people love to get stickers for but where i live it has a different meaning ya where you live, its known as, your moms weight!!!!!!  
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I haven’t had a battery leak in recent memory, and the last time I had one I don’t remember it being such a big deal. I can’t imagine spending any time worrying about it.
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i'm not sure if it's true or something i hallucinated, but i think if you mix old and new batteries in something, the new batteries driving current through the old flat batteries can make them leak
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kirkland alkalines leak if you take them out of your sight for 30 minutes. if you have kids with toys you will be cleaning leaks out of battery compartments on the reg
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Yeah, I've mostly worked my way through the last pack of Kirky Sig alkalines that I bought before deciding to go fully rechargeable, and a bunch of them have leaked in kids toys, one hosed up an Xbox controller pretty nasty. Kids toys tend to be pretty high discharge, so nimh makes sense there. I decided that I'm not going to buy alkalines ever again, but a bunch of stuff comes with alkalines included... So I'm hoarding those to go in very low discharge stuff. The only thing that I know for sure has an alkaline in it is a tiny cheap humidity and temperature sensor that has gone at least two years on its included no brand heavy duty AAA. So not even an alkaline, I guess. Twerk from Home fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Dec 31, 2022 |
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the motion sensors i bought uhhh 4 years ago and hung outside came with these cheap poo poo AAA alkalines and they're still running, after all those hot/cold swings and rain and such. amazing
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incinerators were the 1970s hottest energy and waste solution but it turns out the poo poo that makes it work (efficiently burnable waste) and makes it profitable (scrap metals) are diverted with consumer recycling and you need to burn a lot of natural gas to get it hot enough to work halfway anyway also they’re polluting as hell and even with expensive scrubbers they coat their environment with some nasty poo poo (and they stink) anerobic digesters or bioreactors can do food waste or sewage to gas but doesn’t really scale and are basic greenwashing
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i use whatever batteries came with something, and when that runs out it gets AA/AAA rechargeables. i think we mostly have amazon basics brand these days. this has been your Jones Family Battery Update for the week
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I used to buy rechargeables, but I found they’d drain far faster than fresh alkalines after only a dozen charges.
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Shumagorath posted:I used to buy rechargeables, but I found they’d drain far faster than fresh alkalines after only a dozen charges. that's still a dozen sets that you didn't have to buy and throw out though???
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Don't be a wuss, get out your bench power supply and recharge those alkalines https://goughlui.com/2018/08/05/project-examining-capacity-of-recharged-alkaline-aa-batteries/
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I have the little USB rechargable Lithium Ion AA/AAA/C/D cells and they work pretty well. Naturally, slightly less capacity than Alkaline, but you can just recharge them and they don't go bad nearly as quickly as NiCd or NiMh seem to.
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BattleMaster posted:that's still a dozen sets that you didn't have to buy and throw out though???
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Fabricated posted:I dunno what can be recycled with modern alkaline batteries- originally you had to dispose of them separately because they had heavy metals in them but I'm pretty sure those were phased out years ago. there’s basically nothing of value in alkaline batteries but nothing really bad for you either, they stopped using cadmium and mercury in them years ago. it’s just manganese dioxide, zinc, and potassium hydroxide in a steel can
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Luigi Thirty posted:it’s just manganese dioxide, zinc, and potassium hydroxide in a steel can cool then just blend it with some protein powder and ice and I have all my micros and macros for breakfast
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I've been trying for so long to get my dad to stop using the poo poo rear end harbor freight batteries they give out for free. They feel like they are made of just cardboard and last a few days tops in whatever you put them in. Their remotes and flashlights all die so fast.
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Shumagorath posted:Nah it was almost an order of magnitude when I would use them in stuff like XBox controllers. I ended up buying the Li-Ion packs. really? i picked up a 360 controller that i hadn't used in years the other day and was shocked to find it still worked. there was a pair of amazon basics rechargeables in there
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