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The startup Better Battery Co. wants to make it easier for us to recycle batteries. Through its website and Amazon, the company sells boxes of the most common batteries used by households, like AA and AAA. The packaging also doubles as a container for their return simplifying the recycling process.
The box, which is made from recycled cardboard, is cleverly designed to help the user identify which batteries are new and which have been depleted. The batteries sit tidily inside the box, with individual little slots keeping them all in place. They’re organized in a little winding trail, so you can take out one battery at a time, in order. Each one has a white end and a blue end. When you put a used battery back in the box, you turn it upside down, so the white end is visible. When the trail path has turned from blue to white, it’s ready to recycle the batteries.
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