
Heavy metals are a necessary evil in order to have power on the go. The problem is, once these batteries die, they end up in landfills. And as these batteries disintegrate, they leak mercury, cadmium, lead and other poisons into out water and now our food supply.
Dont believe it? You could take your temperature with the mercury in swordfish steaks. In fact, doctors strongly suggest that pregnant women avoid eating one of my favorites, mercury be darned! Mercury has been tied to many birth defects.
Rayovac and the Green Machine
Get behind Rayovacs efforts to make batteries more Earth friendly. Heres how.
First, dont toss your dead batteries into the trash. Instead, collect them all of them, the jumbos and the tiny hearing aid devices. Then, keep your eye on the newspaper and TV for special toxic trash collection days. All of this toxic waste is collected and disposed of safely, protecting the environment. Next
youre looking at the first green hearing aid battery. The ProLine Mercury Free hearing aid battery is the latest from the leading maker of hearing aid batteries Rayovac . And what makes this innovation so innovative?
Run Your Ear Gear Green
With the introduction of Rayovacs ProLine Mercury Free battery, consumers can still depend on long life and durability built into every Rayovac hearing aid power plant. The rap on mercury-free batteries was that they ran out of power quickly compared to the mercury-based units but through on-going R & D, Rayovacs breakthrough, mercury-free product meets and beats the standards of mercury (harmful) batteries.
And to make it even easier to Go Green, Rayovac’s packaging makes swapping out a battery a breeze instead of an adventure.
Theres not much we can do as individual about the macro environmental issues facing the future inhabitants of the third planet from the sun.
By taking a couple of easy, simple steps you can add your efforts to those of millions of others concerned about the environment.
Lets all start today.
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