{"id":55752,"date":"2020-10-28T10:35:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T10:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=55752"},"modified":"2020-10-28T10:35:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T10:35:32","slug":"murata-saves-the-planet-from-four-billion-mercury-based-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/murata-saves-the-planet-from-four-billion-mercury-based-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Murata saves the planet from four billion mercury-based batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Murata is celebrating 15 years of mercury-free watch battery production at its battery business unit in The Netherlands.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mercury is an environmental pollutant which is very harmful to wildlife and ecosystems and can be damaging to human health.<\/p>\n<p>Murata is a leading manufacturer of electronic components, modules, and devices. It has been producing silver oxide batteries for over 40 years and added to that capability by acquiring a micro battery factory from Sony in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Murata has produced over 4 billion mercury-free silver oxide micro-batteries, saving 3200 kg of mercury from potentially leaking into the environment from spent batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Murata batteries are distributed in the UK by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/condorgrp.com\/findings-tools-batteries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Condor Group<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global components has been making mercury-free watch batteries in The Netherlands for 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[1387,11225,11226],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55752"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=55752"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=55752"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=55752"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=55752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}