Avoid battery-powered keyboards, mice and accessories unless they are truly necessary.
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Welcome to Week 45 of 50 Ways to Reduce Your Waste Line. Last week, we encouraged you to carpool or use the inter-campus shuttle to get to meetings. This week, we ask you to consider avoiding the use of battery-powered computer accessories, such as a wireless mouse or keyboard, to reduce the number of batteries being used, and possibly ending up in a landfill.
One Thing You Can Do:
Unless it is absolutely necessary, you should try to avoid using wireless computer accessories, as these require the use of batteries to function. If disposed of incorrectly, batteries can end up in local landfills, causing their toxic contents (acid, zinc, cobalt, lead, mercury, etc.) to eventually leak into the environment, polluting local tributaries and groundwater sources. This ultimately leads to them contaminating our drinking water, contributing to a variety of negative health effects in wildlife and humans alike.
While batteries may be small individually, when you consider that Canadians consume an average of 550 million alkaline batteries per year, it is fair to say that they can have a significant impact on the environment if not disposed of responsibly.
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Additional Information:
Sheridan College has an agreement with Raw Materials Company (RMC) to provide battery recycling bins and services on campus. If you missed it, take a look at the July 9th post A New Home for the Battery Recycling Bins to find these bins at each campus!
Join a Sheridan Green Team:
The 50 Ways to Reduce Your Waste Line is an initiative created and supported by the various Sheridan Campus Green Teams.
Would you like to get involved and help your campus to be more sustainable? You can join a Green Team! Please email the Green Team contact at each campus as below:
HMC – Jacinda Frazer (jacinda.frazer@sheridancollege.ca)
Davis/Trafalgar – Wai Chu Cheng (waichu.cheng@sheridancollege.ca)
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