Also, just from a fairly green perspective, I didn’t like how it seems quite unsustainable to just keep on buying and buying batteries to feed my hungry flashlights. I mean, I don’t know much about recycling batteries and all that other stuff. Landfills or what have you. But it just seems to me that these batteries, when they die, have to end up somewhere. And it also seems to me that batteries probably have all sorts of nasty stuff in them that I personally wouldn’t want to get in the stuff I drink, I eat, or I swim in. So it just didn’t seem sustainable, and also I didn’t really want to feel the kind of guilt that comes with being part of the problem instead of being part of the solution. So I thought I should start looking for a better way. So I thought maybe I should start making use of rechargeable batteries instead of the throwaway type.

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