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...

As this post is being written, there is only one more week of winter remaining. Spring is on the doorstep. And for those of us at Pale Blue Earth, it is time to get ready...

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...

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...

Lithium-ion and nickel metal hydride (NiMH) are two of the most popular technologies for consumer batteries. Before lithium-ion was popular, NiMH competed with NiCad batteries for market dominance. But these days, lithium-ion is the clear...

There are a lot of things to love about USB-C rechargeable batteries. Not needing to toss them away after a single use like alkalines is at the top of the list. We had a parallel...

It has been quite a while since the first lithium-ion rechargeable batteries made it to market. In the years since, we have seen innovative manufacturers make Li-ion consumer batteries in all the most common form...

We appreciate the fact that so many others agree with our mission to help people to stop buying single-use alkaline batteries. Yet when push comes to shove, it is still super easy to pick up...

The ability to recharge lithium-ion USB-C batteries doesn't exist in isolation. How rechargeable batteries are used, and what that means for single-use batteries, affects many other things. It is like anything else. Every action a...