¡Ponte las pilas!

Just had to use the Spanish expression “put your batteries on” is a close enough translation, but what it really means is “get your act together”!!

Watching Kiss FM – and among the news they've given (yes, this music video station works like traditional radio stations and gives you a recap of the news every hour on the hour) there is one that has really surprised me. Apparently here in Spain we only recycle 18% of the batteries we use!!! That seems plain weird. Can it be that outside Madrid its not that easy to do it? Because here in the capital there really is no excuse. You have “clean points” everywhere – bus stops, street advertising, newspaper stores and even electronic stores. They've made it so easy to recycle – how can it be we aren't doing it? Can it be that people just don't realize how toxic, and therefore life threatening, the contents of batteries are?

(Also written during the movers' lunch break).