{"id":461,"date":"2008-03-13T19:10:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T23:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=461"},"modified":"2013-11-05T10:50:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T15:50:27","slug":"battery-deposit-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Battery Deposit in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Good idea<\/b>: Set up a battery deposit-return system to ensure that the ubiquitous toxic devils are returned and recycled properly, rather than going into a landfill. Particularly handy when properly recycling them is a major pain in the ass (no blue box collection; return depot is not technically in the city where I live, nor open at convenient times) &#8212; thankfully some retailers (e.g.: Best Buy) are starting to accept batteries and electronics for recycling. While we&#8217;re at it, let&#8217;s bump that beer bottle deposit up by an order of magnitude.<\/p>\n<p><b>Bad idea<\/b>: Set up a battery deposit-return system for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/GTA\/article\/332051\">Toronto only<\/a>. This isn&#8217;t like driving hours to take your giant load of pop cans to Quebec for a nickel each: there are a lot of people who live really close to Toronto. And while Toronto is a big city, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s quite big enough to warrant making the battery manufacturers stamp &#8220;return for refund in Toronto&#8221; on the batteries destined for the Toronto market, but not the 905 market. As if Toronto didn&#8217;t have enough budget troubles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good idea: Set up a battery deposit-return system to ensure that the ubiquitous toxic devils are returned and recycled properly, rather than going into a landfill. Particularly handy when properly recycling them is a major pain in the ass (no blue box collection; return depot is not technically in the city where I live, nor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}