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Boy Starts Nonprofit and Recycles 625,000 Batteries by Age 15 With Hundreds of Youth Joining in
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It's uplifting in the sense that it happening is better than it not happening.
I would say it shouldn't be uplifting news, because it's only a fraction of what's needed. 625,000 people should have recycled their own batteries. This is less than 1% of all the trash in the world. All the cleanup thats needed. Billions of cigerette butts just lining the streets of every country (except Japan).
Do you have any idea how many people i see driving down the street, and a mcdonalds wrapper just flys out of their car? Those wrappers will remain intact for years. They're not biodegradable. They float in the wind until they eventually land in the oceans.
625,000 recycled batteries is great, and I want to hug this kid. I'm just saying if people were better people it wouldn't have to be his problem.
He empowered people to recycle 625,000 of their own batteries. This wasn't waste cleanup, it was waste prevention. His nonprofit organization provided battery recycling bins and signs in visible, convenient locations. People otherwise may not have known where, how, or even why they should recycle their batteries.
The constant refrain in c/UpliftingNews, "If it doesn't solve 100% of the problems, it's shit" "If we're not 100% done, why bother reporting on it?"