امروزه مصرف کننده ها ترجیح می دهند از باتریهای قابل شارژ استفاده نمایند ولی باتریهای معمولی تمام شده بعنوان یک مشکل زیست محیطی در صورت عدم بازیافت شدن مطرح میباشند. اخیرا شرکتهایی جهت تشویق مصرف کننده ها برای بازیافت این باتریها چراغهایی طراحی کرده اند که از این باتریهای تقریبا غیر قابل مصرف تغذیه می کنند
Disposable alkaline batteries present a particularly charged environmental conundrum. Manufactured metaphors for a consumer culture gone awry, their hazardous composition and single-use life cycles reap grave environmental repercussions if they are simply tossed in the trash. Their composition includes heavy metals such as mercury, lead, cadmium, and nickel, all of which can seep out and contaminate the earth unless they are properly disposed.
The Energy Seed encourages battery recycling while making use of the minute levels of energy left in “dead” battery cells. The functional street lamp consists of a ring of LEDs stemming from a cylindrical battery storage compartment. The lamp’s base features slots for almost every size battery and once deposited each cell’s energy is pooled to power the energy-efficient light. Once the compartment has been filled to capacity the batteries can be easily collected and recycled.