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I threw away two batteries yesterday. I know, I know—it’s almost the same as chopping down like five old-growth oak trees or something, but it was just so damn easy. And what else are you gonna do with dead batteries? That’s exactly why I am jazzed about this Energy Seed concept by Sungwoo Park. You collect all the batteries that no longer power your digital cameras, baby toys and TV remotes, and you deposit them in the base of this lamp. The lamp then glows, because even a mostly spent battery will be able to power an ultra-efficient light source.

Park seems to think this is only a temporary solution, saying:

Of course once the bins are full, we’re left with the same original problem. Somebody has to collect all those spent batteries and recycle them.

But I say, that’s just pessimism, Sungwoo—if you get some hippy cities like SF and Seattle to install these as points of collection, people would participate and the recycling would get done. Seriously, in this world of half-baked ideas, this one makes a lot of sense to me. Now, to go dig those dead D-cells out of my trash. [Yanko Design]

The grocery store down the street is throwing out cardboard boxes every day, but you’re spending an arm and a leg at Staples to get a dozen for your move—and new webapp BoxCycle is out to stop the madness. Retailers sign up at BoxCycle and list their business hours and the number of boxes they’ve got for sale. People who are moving or shipping stuff can pay for the boxes via PayPal at the site, then pick ‘em up during business hours. The point is to recycle the boxes, get more money back to businesses, and get consumers a discount on usable boxes, though it’ll be interesting to see what kind of uptake there really is on the retailer side. Prices range from 75 cents for an extra small box to a $1.25 for an extra large box. To find cheap to free cardboard boxes elsewhere, there’s always the previously mentioned U-Haul box exchange or good old craigslist.