Battery exchange robbed five times since openingBy Huang Shu-li and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writerAn environmentalist in Yunlin County who makes cushioned footstools for people to buy with used batteries has been robbed five times in six months, he said on Tuesday. Hsieh Wen-ta, an environmental campaigner and footstool and curtain maker, holds a cushioned footstool at his kiosk in Yunlin County on Tuesday. Hsieh began promoting battery recycling 20 years ago over concerns about the damage discarded batteries do to the environment. His recycling kiosk, which is next to the county’s Environmental Protection Bureau, is the first of its kind in Taiwan, he added. Over the past 30 years he has recycled about 7 million batteries, and given away nearly 30,000 footstools, he said.

Source: Taipei Times January 07, 2021 15:56 UTC