Tale of a Toothbrush.
Jean P Nance
about 3 years. The rechargeable battery finally gave out. There are
directions for removing and replacing the batter. However, Walgreens
where I bought it doesn't carry the batteries, they phoned Radio Shack
which doesn't have it. They can only suggest going all over town,
starting with Meiers.
I threw in the towel and just bought a replacement. $40, and life is
too short for the hassle. However, the battery shouldn't be put in with
household trash, Walgreen's won't take it, so it is up to us to phone all
over and try to find where we can legally dispose of it.
There ought to be a law! A place that sells something with a battery
like that should carry replacements, and should recycle the dead
batteries.
Peggy Currid
> I threw in the towel and just bought a replacement. $40, and life is
>too short for the hassle. However, the battery shouldn't be put in with
>household trash, Walgreen's won't take it, so it is up to us to phone all
>over and try to find where we can legally dispose of it.
I'd just throw the battery away. But that's just me.
I have a tendency to rebel in little ways against the stupidity of a
government that forbids disposal of an item yet neglects to provide a
legal, safe, and convenient method for ridding oneself of said item.
Peggy
Jean P Nance
in with the trash. Nobody would ever know. What harm would it do? We
aren't sure. It isn't that we expect the recycling police at our front
door. But, this kind of reasoning, multiplied by a million examples,
small and large, adds up to a world we shouldn't be leaving for those who
come after us. This isn't like leaving our dog's bms on somebody's lawn,
(although we don't even do that). This stuff is forever, and it is
poison.
We wouldn't be punishing Walgreen's, or Bausch and Lomb, or the
U.S., or the State of Illinois, or Champaign County. We would be
punishing somebody's great-great-great-great-great grandchildren. Maybe
ours? Maybe yours?
Peggy Currid
>in with the trash. Nobody would ever know. What harm would it do? We
>aren't sure. It isn't that we expect the recycling police at our front
>door. But, this kind of reasoning, multiplied by a million examples,
>small and large, adds up to a world we shouldn't be leaving for those who
>come after us. This isn't like leaving our dog's bms on somebody's lawn,
>(although we don't even do that). This stuff is forever, and it is
>poison.
Then why doesn't our government (be it federal, state, or local) provide a
safe and legal means of disposal? I understand the reasoning behind the
laws that prohibit throwing toxic material in the regular trash (to be
landfilled), but what are consumers supposed to *do* with such items when
no longer needed? Let them accumulate around the house and in the garage
and basement? Isn't that dangerous, too?
FWIW, I don't toss litter out on the street and if I had a dog, I'd clean
up its messes because it's a simple matter to dispose of my litter and
hypothetical doggie doos in a safe and convenient way.
> We wouldn't be punishing Walgreen's, or Bausch and Lomb, or the
>U.S., or the State of Illinois, or Champaign County. We would be
>punishing somebody's great-great-great-great-great grandchildren. Maybe
>ours? Maybe yours?
That's why we need to have ways to safely dispose of such items rather
than letting them pile up in the basement or garage -- or throwing them in
the trash.
Peggy
Chris Manrique
it with the picture of Al from the TV show Home Improvement.
"Jean P Nance" <jp...@bluestem.prairienet.org> wrote in message
news:h9f%4.1036$p92.214@firefly...
> I have had an Interplak electric toothbrush (Bausch and Lomb) for
> about 3 years. The rechargeable battery finally gave out. There are
> directions for removing and replacing the batter. However, Walgreens
> where I bought it doesn't carry the batteries, they phoned Radio Shack
> which doesn't have it. They can only suggest going all over town,
> starting with Meiers.
> I threw in the towel and just bought a replacement. $40, and life is
> too short for the hassle. However, the battery shouldn't be put in with
> household trash, Walgreen's won't take it, so it is up to us to phone all
> over and try to find where we can legally dispose of it.
Deborah Stevenson
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, maiko covington wrote:
> cur...@staff.uiuc.edu (Peggy Currid) writes:
>
> [battery disposal?]
>
> I was surprised to find that while in the US batteries are
> technically not supposed to be tossed in the trash, just like in Japan,
> there are not convenient battery drop off sites inside corner stores
> and what not, unlike in Japan.
>
> I mainly use rechargable batteries myself, for convenience more
> than anything else, but have certainly been known to toss the odd 9-volt
> into the dumpster. When I called the city about disposing of some Evil
> Noxious Paint Deglosser last year (as the label clearly instructed me to
> do) I was essentially told to just let it moulder in my basement where
> no one will ever have to know about it. I suspect this is how the other
> random Cans O' Unlabelled Hazmat happened to make it down there.
I've asked my garbage co. about stuff and they've been helpful.
However, I'm also starting to think that I'm a big girl and I don't need
nannying on this one by the local authorities, so I've been making more of
an effort to buy stuff I can dispose of legally around here and to avoid
stuff that I can't. It's not like the stuff is forced on me, I'm
perfectly capable of checking out features in advance, and I don't somehow
feel I've got a constitutional right to heedlessly dispose of everything I
drag home from Lowe's :-).
Granted, this doesn't help when a facility shuts down between purchase and
disposal time, and I do wish the disposal capabilities were better
publicized.
Deborah Stevenson
(stev...@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu)