Inspired Recycling

Picture the scenario. You have been away for a week with work and want to get home, get into bed with a cup of tea and relax in front of the TV.

You snuggle into bed and get all comfy, pick up your beloved remote to find the television won’t switch on. Your efforts to angle it at the television in every possible way fail miserably as you realise the batteries have been robbed.
On any day this scenario is annoying but at a moment where you are at your comfiest and you have to move to find where they are is actually soul destroying.

And what makes it worse is that you already know there will be NO spare ones lying around and if you come across one in the ‘Free for all’ drawer and your heart skips a beat, it will instantly regain its normal pace as people only ever store old worn out batteries. Why the hell do they not go to a battery recycling firm!? recycling batteries would make everything so much easier.

Well we feel your pain and we know the situation is tough so we thought we would share some stories from around the web of people who have suffered this exact problem.

When the MP3/iPod Player Runs Out
Okay so it is a family day out and you have been dragged along by your family because apparently you don’t spend enough time with them. Great!

So the journey is 5 hours long and you have to sit next to your sister who talks with a really high pitch voice, your mother who just likes to talk for no reason and your dad who whistles really loudly to absolutely no tune.
The saviour: Your iPod or MP3 player to drown out the unwanted sound to tune into some good music for the whole journey.

The Disaster: You forgot to charge up the battery before you left or the batteries you thought would last forever have unfortunately run out. Nightmare!

When the laptop charger runs out
So you have been in the library all day writing an assignment due in the next day. You have got a decent amount done and feel you have been productive so you head home with your laptop to grab a bite to eat and finish the rest off at home.

Typing away on your laptop after about an hour you notice the battery sign flashing.
The saviour: The trusted laptop charger in your laptop carry case to let you carry on typing your essay.
The disaster: Leaving your battery in the library which closed an hour ago and you can’t finish your essay as your battery has literally five mins left. Oh the joys of technology!

When the mobile phone battery runs out
So you are on your way home from a friend’s birthday bash and feeling pretty hungover. You smell and look pretty gross and the thought of getting the train back home is makes you feel a little bit ill. Reluctantly you get on the train and after five mins it has stopped on the track. No movement. You are slightly glad there is no jolting anymore as it was playing havoc with your stomach but you really just want to get home.

The train driver announces that the train will be terminating at the next stop and the next one will be available in 2 hours. You know that you cannot possibly face another two hours without your bed so what do you do?
The saviour: You call your mum and dad on your mobile phone to get them to pick you up.

The disaster: As soon as your mum picks up, the battery falls to its death and there is no way of switching it back on. So not only can you not get hold of your mum but she is now panicking that she can’t get hold of you and doesn’t know where you are. And to make matters worse you don’t know her mobile phone number off by heart (as that is what mobile address books are for) so you really are stranded and secretly wish you lived in times when people carried paper address and TELEPHONE books.