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How Recycled Consumer Batteries Could Some Day Power a Car

Residents of New York's Broome County were invited to participate in a lithium-ion battery recycling event held in Endwell over the course of a single weekend in mid-August.  Event organizers were looking for lithium-ion AA...
Crushed water bottles

How Much Do You Know about Those Recycling Numbers on Plastics

Pale Blue Earth breaks down the reasoning and meaning behind the recycling numbers on plastics.
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Companies and Sustainability: It's Okay to Want More

Sustainability has become a buzzword among major brands and manufacturers. As a result, it is easy to be skeptical and assume that a given company's sustainability efforts are either just marketing or beneficial to the...
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A Common Question on Battery Recycling

We are big proponents of battery recycling here at Paleblue. We hope you are. too. At recent tradeshows, our team fielded a common question we get on where we recommend people recycle their batteries. Most...
musician

Rock On with Lithium-Ion Batteries – Literally!

There is a guy in Central Florida who was just recently turned on to our USB-C 9V batteries. He is a musician. He plays the coolest Martin guitar. It is an acoustic- electric with a...
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Is It Time for a USB-C e-Bike Charging System?

We are on record as being big fans of the new USB-C cable and charging technology. We have written a few blog posts about it, and we have begun making the conversion for our own...
food waste

Will You Do Your Part to End Food Waste in the U.S.?

Paleblue is on a mission to help households dramatically reduce their battery waste by convincing them to ditch the disposables in favor of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. We don't think waste of any kind is all...
battery form factors

Battery Form Factors: How Many Do You Have at Home?

A couple of months ago, we published a post that discussed various battery form factors. The post talked about 9V batteries, AAAs, AAs, etc. Thinking about form factors was intriguing for the simple fact that...
Colorful disposable batteries

Ditching Disposables: A Mindset, Not Just an Action

One of the marketing taglines we associate with our brand is 'ditch disposables'. But for us, the concept is more than just a clever statement to sell batteries. It is actually a foundational part of...