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[sarren]

Poll BATTERIES OMG SO EVIL

Perth people: They have bins at the library! I did not know this!

Comments

[black_samvara]

Option 5 where I try to buy rechargables as often as possible to avoid having to dispose of batteries correctly.

[sarren]

Yeah, but even they run out eventually.

(rechargeables hate me, but I'm going to try harder now)

[fred_mouse]

our local school has a battery recycling program - I just have to remember to give them to kid B to take in, and the problem becomes someone elses (and I use rechargeables as much as possible)

[sarren]

Yeah, not my school. I've given Dragonfly the booklet (to take to Bunny's school) that I picked up at the Waste Management Expo about how schools can get involved in sustainability .

[fred_mouse]

I'm pretty sure that our school is a fair way along the curve where sustainability is concerned - there are a couple of teachers who are very very committed, and the whole school has got behind it. There is a permaculture garden, battery and cork recycling, and various other programs as well. The kids do 'technology' projects that have to only use recycled materials, things like that. And there is some kind of water saving program that they are involved with as well.

mind you, when we tried to get a walking school bus program going, the p&c stonewalled us, so not as good as it could be (I got so pissed with various things that the p&c did that I withdrew, and only work on the subcommittees these days)

[sarren]

Sounds pretty awesome, yay for committed teachers.

Why did the p&c stonewall it?

[psycho_tabby]

My answer wasn't quite true. I know they are bad but don't know where to dispose of them, so they just seem to accumulate in my draw, kind of like the growing pile of lonely socks that come out of the washing machine.

[sarren]

Libraries!!!! Libraries have drop in boxes for them. WHO KNEW???

There should be better and more intense advertising campaigns directed at stuff like this.

[brightbear]

Which libraries have these bins? I have a vague memory from childhood of Captain Planet giving me a "batteries are bad" message but nobody has ever been able to actually tell me what to do about this. I have asked a few people and they mostly blink and look puzzled.

[sarren]

Well, I can only speak for the City of Stirling. No doubt your council has a similar site.

[mcicioni]

Have done the poll.

This is so totally OT, but ... I have been to Yuletide's FAQs and Fandom Master List. No Lewis and, shock horror, no Sherlock Holmes. Am I blind or nobody wants to write in these fandoms? Am I too late to nominate them?

[sarren]

Okay, firstly, *breathe*. Second, join, or at least watch yuletide_admin and yuletide. This will tell you when stuff is happening. Right now we haven't had nominations, we're still throwing out ideas. HERE is a place where everyone is throwing out ideas and/or declaring what they're going to be nominating. You can nominate up to six. I am on page 5. I looked through the ones that came before (and now the ones since) and have seen a couple of fandoms that I'd like that have been mentioned a few times, so I feel pretty safe leaving it up to someone else to nominate

[sarren]

I'm on page six now, sorry, I got bumped.