{"id":1101,"date":"2008-08-05T13:20:58","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T13:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2008-10-11T12:49:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T12:49:42","slug":"battery-take-back-scheme-begins-september-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2008\/battery-take-back-scheme-begins-september-26th\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery take back scheme begins September 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 26 September 2008 onwards all battery retailers will be required to take back, free of charge, waste batteries including rechargeable batteries including those incorporated into electrical and electronic equipment and\/or battery packs. Any person depositing waste batteries at the premises of any battery retailer will not be obligated to purchase any product or products from the retailer concerned. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environ.ie\/en\/Environment\/Waste\/ProducerResponsibilityObligations\/Batteries\/\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1102\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1102\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/batteries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1102\" title=\"batteries\" src=\"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/images\/batteries.jpg\" alt=\"a years supply \" width=\"450\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a years supply <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brian Greene asks<br \/>\nwhy no wind up remote controls? no wind up! a shake of the trolls and there is enough power to beam a tiny IR signal 12feet!<br \/>\nwill shops take back mobile phone batteries? no. but phone shops should.<br \/>\nwhat batteries are safe to dispose of for land fill? none<br \/>\nwhy not operate a money back scheme? like the soft drinks glass in the 1970&#8217;s<br \/>\nwill new ipods have removable batteries according to this directive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 26 September 2008 onwards all battery retailers will be required to take back, free of charge, waste batteries including rechargeable batteries including those incorporated into electrical and electronic equipment and\/or battery packs. Any person depositing waste batteries at the premises of any battery retailer will not be obligated to purchase any product or products&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2008\/battery-take-back-scheme-begins-september-26th\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Battery take back scheme begins September 26th<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92,5],"tags":[99,100],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dublin13","category-enviro","tag-batteries","tag-waste","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}