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Why Alkaline Batteries Are Prone to Leaking

Given the fact that alkaline batteries can leak, lithium-ion batteries are often a better choice. 
Here's Hoping Future Recycling Predictions Prove Accurate

Here's Hoping Future Recycling Predictions Prove Accurate

Regular Paleblue Earth customers know exactly where we stand on the recycling topic. We are all for it. In fact, one of the reasons we decided to get into rechargeable batteries was a desire to...
Batteries Are Dangerous in Landfills

Batteries Are Dangerous in Landfills

It is no secret that the team here at Pale Blue Earth is passionate about displacing single-use alkaline batteries with rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. We don't want consumers buying them and all the packaging that they...
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Our Top Summer Sustainability & Recycling Tips

Regular blog readers know we are big fans of recycling. We believe in it so much that we encourage people to stop buying alkaline batteries and replace them with rechargeable lithium-ion products. You can easily...
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Why Is the Alkaline Battery Habit So Hard to Break?

Alkaline batteries have been around for so long that plenty of adults do not remember a time before they were readily available. What's more, society has spent the better part of 60 years buying alkaline...
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Checklists and Sincerity Won't Save the Planet

Earth Day rolls around every 22nd of April. As this post is being written, Earth Day 2023 was just a few days ago. And as is the case every year, we saw a ton of...
Waste Not, Want Not Applies to Rechargeable Batteries, Too

Waste Not, Want Not Applies to Rechargeable Batteries, Too

Are you familiar with the old idiom, 'waste not, want not'? It is an expression to denote the fact that you will not want something new if you don't waste what you already have. Think...
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Li-Ion Battery Collection Sets a New Record in 2022

Regular readers of the Paleblue blog know how passionate we are about battery recycling. So it goes without saying that we are over the moon about a recently released report from one of our favorite...
5 Reasons Sustainability Still Matters in 2023

5 Reasons Sustainability Still Matters in 2023

More than a decade ago, an organization known as Fronesys published a report originally developed to make a business case for sustainability. The report laid out no fewer than six reasons companies should embrace the...