In modern society, we use batteries all of the time, such as for all of our myriad electronic devices, as well as, nowadays, even in our mode of transportation, such as vehicles. The thing that some people get so wrong about batteries is that batteries are not actually a source of energy, but rather they store energy so as to keep an electronic device functioning, or a vehicle, moving. This thus signifies, that batteries by their very nature, in the sense that they store energy, need to be carefully dealt with, for energy stored in compact packages, can be susceptible to that very same energy being unexpectedly destructive, as well.
To a very large extent, most of the public, despite whatever warnings that have been applied to devices that utilize batteries, or on the actual package container that consists of the battery or batteries, don’t seem to typically express a lot of concern or worry about those batteries; thereby, leading to those very same people and businesses often being rather cavalier about not only how they interact with those batteries, but also in regards to the disposal of those batteries, as well. As in many a thing, the government needs to take on more responsibility in doing their good part by informing the general public that the public needs to be more cognizant of the potential dangers of batteries for not only the end user, but also in regards to the proper disposal of; by impressing upon the people, that batteries can be explosive, flammable, subject to being mishandled, and damaged, as well as acknowledging more forthrightly that batteries typically contain chemicals that can be quite dangerous. Further to the point, through chemical leakage, poor design, cheap materials and the like, batteries can be susceptible to spontaneous bad and tragic events.
Again, batteries are storers of energy, and thereby they must periodically have that energy renewed, typically accomplished through electricity or else the device so using those batteries will soon become inoperable. This thus signifies that the ease of providing that electrical charge to those batteries has to be universal as well as being readily available, which is typically the case when it comes to batteries in modern, western societies, but isn’t necessarily the case in foreign lands that lack the infrastructure to assure such. So too, the price of that electricity most definitely is an ongoing cost in regards to batteries, so that, it would behoove governments to provide that electricity as an essential public service that should be responsibly regulated, which we so find is often the case.
Because batteries store energy, but are not themselves a source of energy, it is imperative, that the electricity so needed for those batteries be structured in such a way, that the electricity to these devices be both dependable as well as being robust, for a battery without stored energy, has little practical value. So too, once a battery becomes unreliable, weakened, or has been completed used up, the discarding of such, should be something that is uniform throughout this nation, as well as being responsibly structured so as to thereby be safe for the environment.