Better Battery Co is also a member of 1% for the Planet. This means 1% of revenues goes to helping the planet.
Rechargeable batteries have been a thing for 30+ years. We have old battery collection points in most super markets.
What problem does this solve?
Well, the shareholders want money. So it could solve that problem.
uhm… there are no shares for that company.
If it’s privately owned, there are owners who want to make money. If it’s a nonprofit, there are employees who want a paycheque.
Is this company even Canadian?
Also… rechargeable batteries.
Yes, they are located in Barrie, Ontario. I wrote in the body of this post a link to their 1% for the Planet page.
I had to dig but this is them I think looks like Ontario based.
The only place you can buy their stuff in CAD is on Amazon and I’ve deleted my amazon account for what they did in Quebec. They may be in Canada but they’re making it hard for me to support them.
Looks like you can buy right from their website without amazon. They use Shop Pay.
Yeah ditto for me re:amazon. Oh well…
Even if you personally disagree with the business, given the current tarriff war, we should still be buying Canadian or encouraging others to buy Canadian.
Yeah I think people are missing the point here. If its an option to buy batteries from a Canadian company, why not?
This is the way.
Yeah you don’t need to over pay on batteries to recycle them just take them to your local recycling center… GREENWASH
I don’t know a single person that takes their batteries to be recycled though
Hi there,
Pleased to meet you.
Sincerely,
-A single person who takes their batteries to be recycled.I do. It’s really easy. Even staples has bins for them.
I’m in PEI and most grocery stores have a battery recycle bin.
We don’t use many non-recharge batteries, but we drop whatever dies in the bin.
More of an education problem. Which won’t really be fixed by this… Right like I don’t know anyone who is going to pay extra for these batteries for something they already don’t care about.
Depends on where you live… Like in Mississauga this is a non-starter due to local programs. I think it has a better chance of targeting rich Americans that don’t have these local recycling programs and are more susceptible to paying to greenwash.
Our apartment building has a bucket in the lobby for old batteries. Those go to the recycling place every year or whenever anyone is going that way.
