Venom Power's Eco Alkalines batteries are a big fat zero: 0% Mercury, 0% Cadmium, 0% Lead . They're also certified Carbon Neutral by Carbonfund.org, with support going to the Paso Pacifico Return to Forest reforestation project...
Eco Alkaline batteries will be available in AA, AAA, C, D and 9V sizes at retailers throughout North America during the fourth quarter this year. We'll have to give them a try and pit them against out favourite Duracell and rechargeable Energizers.
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But they're not rechargeable? Smells more like greenwashing to me.
macrcelebrate: considering 50% to 70% of heavy metals found in landfills come from batteries, designing batteries with 0% mercury, 0% cadmium, 0% lead doesn't seem like greenwashing, but rather an evolutionary step toward a less environment-damaging product. We use rechargeable batteries in our household, but even those eventually need to be replaced, so hopefully we'll see the chemical-free attributes of the Eco Alkalines in a rechargeable version soon also.
**drags soapbox out from under the table**
Ahem.
I gotta call BS on this.
Look guys, Batteries are not "Green", nor are they "Carbon Neutral" These things are full of metal and acidic(or alkali) materials. Are they better for the environment than the standard battery....Maybe, but probably not by much.
You want to have green batteries? Fine. RECYCLE THEM. Almost everything in a battery can be reused or remanufactured. (except, oddly enough, rechargables)
Sorry, this "green washing" thing is really starting to get to me.
*getting off soap box*
AlexanderB: the reality is people use batteries for a myriad of devices and their use is only going to increase exponentially as the world becomes more mobile and handheld oriented, so any steps forward in removing/reducing toxic chemicals in their manufacturing is notable. Agreed that recycling them would be another excellent step in improving the ecological impact, but using less toxic materials in manufacturing them in the 1st place isn't so trivial as implied.
Admittedly the mistake here might be advertising these as "carbon neutral", since that's an after the fact element of these batteries selling point, but discounting the progression of manufacturing improvements seems as misguided as being angry about CFL bulbs, hybrid engine or OLED display technology and adoption, all technologies that are stopgaps in a certain sense.