One would actually think that the most important rules of waste separation have become a matter of course. But highly toxic batteries in the residual waste bin? Our comment.
Corona or not. The world keeps turning. What was important before the pandemic will be important afterwards. For example, garbage and the environment - we reported on it several times this week. Yes: elsewhere in the world things are much worse with waste separation than here. But no: that doesn't absolve us from becoming even better at it.
Because why in the world does half of all batteries obviously end up in the German residual waste? Even children learned in the 1980s that batteries of all types are pretty much the biggest poison bombs we hold in our hands every day. The problem is becoming more and more urgent for three reasons: Firstly, almost every device is now mobile and therefore equipped with a battery. Second, electric cars in particular are equipped with highly potent batteries. And thirdly, the more and more built-in lithium-ion batteries are not only highly toxic like all other energy storage devices, but also extremely dangerous.
If something like this breaks and reacts with the air, life-threatening flashes and long-burning fires arise. The initiative of the waste management industry for the correct disposal of accumulators and batteries is therefore an important contribution. Even if one has to ask why such a campaign is still necessary in 2020.
In contrast, farmers around Anton Nussrainer in Oberding have done real pioneering work. Your station for filling and cleaning plant protection equipment helps to solve an urgent disposal problem in agriculture. Because even if the best water in the world simply comes from the tap here - the protection of our waters and groundwater reserves will also become increasingly important in our region. Nussrainer has also contributed to raising awareness among his class colleagues - a valuable contribution.
The lack of knowledge about environmental sins is often not the problem. You can find out, for example, in a sorting system for yellow sacks. A frequent and particularly annoying "foreign matter" here are full diapers. That shows: some contemporaries just don't care. We will report on this system later. Hopefully there will be one or the other aha experience while reading.