{"id":566703,"date":"2010-05-17T07:08:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T11:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.greenlaunches.com,2010:\/\/19.56339"},"modified":"2010-05-17T07:10:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T11:10:25","slug":"sonys-mercury-free-mini-alkaline-battery-helps-to-keep-the-environment-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566703","title":{"rendered":"Sony&#8217;s mercury-free mini Alkaline battery helps to keep the environment clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sony-mercury-free-battery.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenlaunches.com\/entry_images\/0510\/17\/Sony-mercury-free-battery.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"194\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\"\/><\/span><br \/>\nIt\u2019s about time those small tablet-shaped alkaline batteries go green. And that\u2019s exactly what Sony though of, and came up with these five  Mercury-Free (0%) Mini Alkaline battery models, which will debut in August. Batteries like these are used in watches, calculators, toys and portable game consoles. These however have mercury, which when disposed of cause significant harm to the environment. When not disposed of properly, the mercury infiltrates the food chain.<\/p>\n<p>Mercury can also harm the human body as well as the environment on entering the food chain. Sony\u2019s baby, the 0% Mercury Mini Alkaline battery however keeps the mercury at bay, and the problems caused by it away. This does not affect the performance of these batteries either. Introducing batteries like these will decrease mercury by around 470 kg annually, or so Sony hopes.  <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyinsider.com\/2010\/05\/13\/sony-introduces-a-green-mercury-free-mini-alkaline-battery\/\">Sonyinsider<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s about time those small tablet-shaped alkaline batteries go green. And that\u2019s exactly what Sony though of, and came up with these five Mercury-Free (0%) Mini Alkaline battery models, which will debut in August. Batteries like these are used in watches, calculators, toys and portable game consoles. These however have mercury, which when disposed of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}