Review and Green Giveaway: Fuji EnviroMAX Batteries

Our contest has officially come to a close! Thanks to all who entered! Here is our lucky winner, as selected via Random.org:

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Timestamp: 2009-08-02 21:01:49 UTC

#16 is Nickel Pickle!! YAY! Congratulations :) Please check your e-mail.

Thanks again to everyone who entered! Don't forget, these batteries are now available at Target and Amazon.com.

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Welcome to our very first Green Organic Mama.com Giveaway Contest!

This past weekend marked the arrival of Fuji's EnviroMAX line of environmentally-friendly alkaline batteries, now available at Target stores, and online at Amazon.com. These revolutionary line of batteries have already been awarded the National Parenting Center Seal of Approval for its “Impressive Performance” and “Environmentally Respectful Manufacturing Process”, as well as the iParenting Media Award for “Outstanding Product”.

This is what Fuji has to say about their new line of "Super Alkaline" and "Digital Alkaline" batteries:

Fuji EnviroMAX batteries bring long-awaited peace-of-mind to consumers who “live green” when choosing consumable products. The batteries:

• do NOT contain poisonous cadmium, lithium, or mercury
• are packaged with recycled paper and fully recyclable PET plastic.
• can be harmlessly disposed of through normal waste systems
• do not contain ingredients harmful to the environment
• are landfill safe as they degrade
• equal or exceed performance/longevity of major equivalent brands
• offer outstanding performance at an affordable cost
• ozone-depleting compounds have been eliminated in the production of Fuji EnviroMAX batteries
  

Fuji is kindly providing me with a pack of these batteries to try. While our family does try to use rechargeables whenever possible, sometimes that's not always practical. For example, we live in the Florida Keys, where power failures are very common, as our electricity travels down undersea cables from the mainland, and of course, there's always the threat of hurricanes. We can't exactly charge up rechargeables when there's no power. That's why we always keep a large supply of alkaline batteries in a watertight storage box, along with our emergency supplies. We'll be glad to switch to these environmentally-conscious EnviroMAX batteries, as our akalines-of-choice. I'm certainly guilty of forgetting to bag up my used disposable batteries for "safe" disposal by our recycling trucks. Now, that won't be a problem anymore. Safer batteries from a trusted company, that keep the environment in mind from their creation to their disposal, and are comparable in performance with major brands -- sounds like a winner to me.

Speaking of winners, in addition to providing me with a package to try out, Fuji is offering a variety pack of EnviroMAX batteries to one lucky reader of this blog! This variety pack includes a mix of sizes in AA, AAA, C, and D in Super Alkaline, and AA and AAA Digital Alkaline (MSRP $30.00).

To enter this contest, please leave a comment below, letting our readers know what you do to live a little "greener". Please be sure to leave your e-mail address, so I may contact you if you're the lucky winner. (If you want to stay private, e-mail me via the CONTACT button below, and tell me your comment number(s)).

For additional entries, please first leave a comment about what you do to live "greener", and then do any one (or all) of the following, for a maximum of 5 (five) total entries in this giveaway contest [please be sure to come back and leave a follow-up comment for each of these completed tasks, in order to be counted as an additional entry]:

• Follow this blog with Google Friend Connect, by clicking the button on the right-hand column of this blog (or if you're already doing so, leave a comment telling me so)
• Follow this blog with NetworkedBlogs by clicking the link, or on the button on the right-hand column of this blog (or if you're already doing so, leave a comment telling me so)
• Tweet about this giveaway with this: Win an eco-friendly pack of Fuji EnviroMAX batteries at http://www.greenorganicmama.com
• Follow me on Twitter @greenorganicmom
  

By entering this contest, you have read and understand the rules and fine print of this contest:

1. Contest ends Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 at 5:00PM EST
   
2. Contest open to U.S. residents
3. Winner shall be chosen from the pool of valid comment entries, using Random.org
   
4. Winner will be contacted via e-mail, and will provide a U.S. mailing address, which will then be provided to Fuji EnviroMAX, for the purpose of directly mailing the giveaway prize to the winner
5. Fuji EnviroMAX reserves the right to modify the prize package offering and quantities
6. Winner will be announced here on this blog, and on Twitter, and NetworkedBlogs
7. Fuji EnviroMAX sent me one pack of batteries to review for this post, and they will send the winner a variety pack of batteries. No promotional consideration was paid for this post.

Good luck to everyone!! :)

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