A billion batteries

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Fourteen-year-old Sri Nihal Tammana is on a mission to prevent billions of batteries going to landfill. After watching devastating fires cause by discarded lithium-ion batteries, the kind of batteries found in most modern consumer electronics, he decided to set up a not--for-profit organisation called Recycle my Battery. They have set up recycle points in shops and local businesses, evangelised about the importance of recycling batteries in schools and local temples and have partnered with the largest non-profit battery recycling company in north America, Call2Recycle.

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0:21.0	OK, it's all set.
0:23.0	The lights on, that means the drone is working.
0:24.0	Let me put it on to the floor.
0:27.0	Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:31.0	I'm Vishva Samani and for this programme,
0:34.0	I'm following this child,
0:36.0	14-year-old Shrinahal Thumbna,
0:38.0	an Indian American schoolboy.
0:44.0	He's on a mission to recycle billions of batteries.
0:48.0	A journey that began in his bedroom in New Jersey,
0:51.0	with this battery-powered toy drone.
0:57.0	This is the battery which is drone usage.
1:00.0	It's a lithium-ion polymer rechargeable battery.
1:03.0	Lithium-ion battery is extremely dangerous,
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