How does eneloop protect the environment?
Background Batteries are part of our modern life. Just imagine your houshold without batteries. The amount of sold batteries in the European Union in 2005 was approximately 180 000 tons. ( SANYO estimation ). In Germany for example more than 1.3 Billion batteries have been sold in 2005. More than 90 per cent of this amount come from disposalbe batteries; i.e. batteries, which can only be used once and have to be disposed after usage. This alone represents a gigantic waste of resources, if you consider that 162 000 tons of batteries plus packaging have been produced and transported only for a single use. Also the unavoidable burden for the environment by the manfacturing process and by the transport should be considered. The governments of the EU member states have realized the potential threat for the environment by this huge amount of disposed batteries and have therefore requested the battery manufacturers to collect and recycle these batteries. In several european countries collecti
