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Earth911 Podcast: Meet Kid-Powered RecycleMyBattery.org
Earth911 Podcast: Meet Kid-Powered RecycleMyBattery.org
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Length:
15 minutes
Released:
Mar 16, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Meet Rayansh Bhavit, a member of Edison, N.J.-based RecycleMyBattery.org, a youth-led program that has collected 150,000+ batteries for recycling. Rayansh recently contributed an Earth911 article about the organization's National Battery Day activities to encourage people to recycle batteries on February 18th. He and the 150 kids who’ve participated in RecyleMyBattery have collected more than 150,000 batteries of various sizes, which they send to the battery industry recycling organization, Call2Recycle, for processing.Find out how the movement started and the results of this year’s National Battery Day efforts, and think about starting your own campaign for next year. Getting youth involved in environmental action is essential to creating the sense of empowerment and opportunity necessary to turn the economy toward sustainable outcomes. You can learn more at https://recyclemybattery.org/.
Released:
Mar 16, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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