Energizer Is Finally Making AA Batteries Using Recycled Materials

Once the purpose of toxic mercury in house stamp battery was eliminated a couple of decennary ago , it finally became safe to just toss drained AAs in the tripe . But if deep down you actually feel guilty about not being able-bodied to reprocess them , Energizer ’s here to assist your conscious with its newEcoAdvanced AAsmade with four percent recycle stamp battery material .

That does n’t sound like much , but it on the face of it took Energizer some seven years to figure out how to reuse material like manganese and Zn from dead batteries , without sacrificing the carrying into action of the final product . And four percent is just the beginning . Energizer claims the constriction actually lies with there being few recycling plants with the technology require to regenerate the materials from dead alkaline batteries , but by 2025 the amount of recycled cloth in a new Associate in Arts could be as high as 40 per centum .

A four - pack of Energizer ’s new EcoAdvanced AA battery will sell for around five buck , so they ’ll be about 25 per centum more expensive than corresponding high - functioning batteries without recycle materials in them . But as their popularity increases , and more and more recycling facilities are capable to process alkalines , the cost will certainly amount down over time . [ EnergizerviaThe Wall Street Journal ]

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