1000 Flowers for the Planet - #930 Use a Pedal-Powered Bike Light
As we know from Flower #403 Recycle Batteries, the cost of batteries to the environment is huge: use of finite resources including steel, zinc, manganese, potassium, cobalt, paper and plastic; transportation; packaging; landfill; leaching chemicals into the environment. If we can avoid using batteries it is far better for the planet. Using a pedal-powered light on your bicycle is a great idea. It means you always have illumination, never run out of battery power at an inconvenient moment and save money. There are some countries where bicycles are used in huge numbers – imagine the savings to the planet if billions of bicycles only used pedal-powered lights. Make the switch today.
