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Use rechargeable batteries instead of disposable ones. Not only better for the environment, they’ll save you money in the long term.

In the UK 700 million batteries are sold a year, (about 21 per person.) Each of these batteries takes roughly 50 times more energy to make than it provides. You get 50 times more energy out of a rechargeable battery than it takes to make one - equivalent to 2,500 times more than for a disposable battery.

They save waste. If you recharge your battery 500 times you save 500 other batteries ending up in landfill sites.

They save money. You get the extra money you paid for the battery back after just five charges, so you get the equivalent of 495 charges for free.

The cost of recharging batteries is only about 1p.

Like old style lightbulbs, disposable batteries are an old fashioned technology that should be avoided at all costs.