“Hey, Martin. You got a minute?” Ted carried a rusted steering wheel as he walked up to Martin’s car. “Whoah, Dude! Nice battery collection. Can I have it?”
“No way. You’ll turn it into some weird art project that will only get thrown away just like your car. I’ve been collecting these for years. I’m on my way to the recycling center now. Want to come?”
”Sure!”
The clerk at the hazardous materials center tossed the jar over his shoulder into a heap of similar jars. “For these old alkaline batteries, just put them in the regular garbage.”
“I’ll take that!” Ted caught it in mid-air.
The Hub: Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
Photo credit: Sean Fallon
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