General Chat

Handy being able to drop lights at your ironmongers, Names.

Locally, Age UK Centre and the library also have collection points for batteries.

I also save the empty foil bubble packs from prescription or over the counter pills.
When I have a small collection, I drop them off at the collecting box in Superdrug in a local town.

Foil packs are the one thing I can't recycle and we have lots of them. None of our local chemists will take them, not even the branch of Superdrug. :-(

I save my foil packs too as out local chemist have an agreement with superdrug.

Gwyn. We didn’t know about the strip lights until my OH posed the question when he bought a new one.

When he took in the used one he was told it didn’t look like it had actually gone - so he bought it home.

I,ve been saving up the foil packs but unless we have thelongbus turn round trip we won’t have time to drop them off. The choice is about 40 minutes or over 2 hours.

thing about batteries is.....


alkalines have a nominal voltage around 1-5 volts per cell when new


rechargeables are 1-2 volts per cell, fully charged around 1-4 volts per cell

single cells in clocks etc doesn't really make any difference, but when multiple cells are used....as in torches...

4 alkalines make 6v.....

but you need 5 rechargeables to make a full 6 volts.

i use 9volt rechargeables in my smoke alarms...

Well,guess what father bought for me this xmas??

Yes a recharging unit for batteries plus 8 AA & 8 AAA batteries. So I asked how long for 4 AA to charge and he said "about 14 hours!!"

I do wonder how much it will cost to charge the batteries?

Florence in the hebrides

The longer you use the rechargeables the more efficient they become. you will only pay the cost of charging, 14 hours is from completely flat...if you need to , have some spare batts already charged,,,

Bob, I charged 4 AA batteries yesterday and it took 7 hours so they may have been charged already but obviously been sitting in a shop or warehouse for awhile.

I shall still keep my cheapy batteries for spares though, always have a plan B lol

Florence in the hebrides