Klarinet Archive - Posting 000074.txt from 2006/04

From: o4rmondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Product Review
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:41:19 -0400

Kevin=A0wrote:

> battery-powered units. I guess I'm old school;
> I wistfully remember mine [plug-in
> metronome] from years ago.

One more reason to be wistful.... my town has recently passed a law
against disposing of *all* batteries in the trash (not just rechargeable
& lead-acid batteries).

Now we are required to accumulate them and to deliver them personally to
a hazardous disposal site (rather than having a separate garbage can
which the trash company will accept). And the site for batteries is in
a different part of town from the site where we must deliver all
electronics except for TV and computer monitors, which is in a different
part of town from the site where we must deliver paint & motor oil ....
etc. There are fees at each site (except one) of course.

Since portable appliance batteries (D, C, AA, 9-volt, hearing aid, etc)
are small, the battery law is probably impossible for them to enforce,
but it's the law....

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