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Today I will be unboxing batteries and not rechargeable batteries. These are

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your standard run-of-the-mill plain jane

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alkaline batteries, but there is something special about them. So, I'm

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going to go ahead and point at it. Earth friendly landfill safe. So, these are

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batteries that are supposedly ecoresponsible. They contain 0% cadmium,

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lead, and mercury. And they are digital

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alkaline batteries, by the way. And they are landfill safe, meaning that they are

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there. It is patent pending leak resist

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seal. They are equipped with a patent pending leak resist seal. So today, more

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and more people are mindful about the products they use every day and their associated environmental impact and

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global warming contributions. Here we have a CO2 carbon footprint jiggy. By

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purchasing eco-aline batteries, you're doing your part to reduce the CO2 and

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climate change impact brought about by the production, distribution, and disposable alkaline batteries. Asterex

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does not take a stance on the global warming issue. So, you know, just

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throwing that out there, but I'm just telling you guys what the manufacturer

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has to say. Ecoalkine batteries are progressive, high-quality consumer

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batteries with performance rivaling national leading alkaline battery brands. Interesting. Okay. Do not

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recharge these batteries. If they are recharged, then they will break. Okay.

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And woo, there they are. Okay. So, hold on. Hold on. Let me get them. Let me get

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them all opened. Let me see what else they have to Oh, okay. I'm making a

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total mess here. Let me see what else they have to say for themselves. So,

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they are certified carbon neutral and the world's first, but I'm going to find

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where that asterisk goes and I'm going to find out what it's all about. Hold

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on. Where does it go?

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Um, okay. I can't find it. Okay.

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Aboutcarbonfund.org. So, leading nonprofit provider of carbon offset and

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climate solutions organizations make it easy to Okay. Uh, carbon offset enables

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individuals working with carbon which has the first carbon neutral product label in the US. Ecoalkine batteries are

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certified carbon neutral. Okay. So here's all the details. The asterisk doesn't go anywhere in particular. It

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just refers to the pamphlet itself. So here are the test results which you can

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view online showing the EcoAkalines versus Duracell Energizer and Kirkland.

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That's the Costco brand of all things. Okay. We've also got uh the pretty much

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the same stuff that we covered on the back of the box and the front of the

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box. And today consumers are more aware

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of the environmental impact of the products they use every day. Created by

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the manu alkaline batteries in Canada. Wow, look at that. More than

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296 million car kilm equivalent of CO2

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are created by the manufacturer, distribution, use, and disposal of alkaline batteries in Canada. All other

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batteries carry at least one of the three elements above. That means

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cadmium, lead, and mercury. Other brands may limit the usage by maintaining

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levels below the 0.9% that allows them to be called free, but these harmful

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chemicals are still present. Interesting. That's up to 900 times more

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dangerous materials than eco batteries. Ecoalkine brand batteries have zero of

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these heavy metals. I mean that to me is more than almost anything else the big

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thing here. I mean there's the carbon neutral stuff. There's the not leaking

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which is well actually critical but then the fact that they don't contain the

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heavy metals in the first place and if they can still provide the same

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performance that you're going to get from another alkaline battery then great

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why not. So guys, thanks for checking out my little unboxing and preview or

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feature or whatever you want to call it of the Eco Alkaline batteries. And don't

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