Rechargeable Batteries Canada

Electronics rule our lives. Every day we stuff our mobile phone into our pockets as we rush out the door to work. We take our portable MP3 player with us when we go to the gym. We bring our digital camera with us when we're out for a hike. Then we sit back on the couch and relax with a remote control in our hands and 5 more sitting on the coffee table. Unfortunately, these things all need power -- and thus we have become incredibly dependent on batteries.

Up until recently I've never really dealt with rechargeable batteries. Every year for Christmas I'd ask for batteries and my mother would grab me a giant pack of AA or AAA's at Cosco and I'd be set for another year. If I needed some before my yearly restock I'd just grab cheap ones at the dollar store. I never thought much about it, they're relatively cheap and very plentiful. Over time I grew more conscious of how much waste I was creating, after cutting out bottled water from my daily life I decided my next step was to reduce the amount of batteries I was tossing into the garbage. I could easily toss 2 to 4 batteries into the garbage each week, when I thought about I realized those batteries were still sitting somewhere in a landfill, and would be for a long long time.

So I spent an hour staring at the selection of rechargeable batteries at Walmart one night, and ended up coming home empty handed. There was so much to choose from, NiMH, NiCad, Li-on, rechargeable Alkaline and a bunch of other terms that were plastered all over the box. The staggering amount of variables to consider left my overwhelmed and discouraged. So I went home and did some research, and found out there's a lot of thought that needs to go into your purchase. But if you take that time and buy the right batteries for the right job, you can find your batteries lasting longer than they ever did before and if you charge them properly you can reuse them hundreds of times. This means instead of tossing dead batteries each week, you're only throwing out a couple every year or two. That's an incredible reduction on your bio load, as well as your wallet.