Environmental Protection Department: Used dry batteries can be used as domestic waste

Pingdingshan News Network News "There are a lot of dry batteries in the house, I don't know how to deal with it? Where is the recycling of dry batteries in the urban area?" Yesterday, Ms. Peng called the evening newspaper hotline.

Ms. Peng, who lives near the factory in the East section of Miner's Road in the city, said that since she had children, she had bought many toys. The batteries installed on the toys were consumed so quickly that she quickly saved up half the plastic bags because of fear of contamination. She never dared to throw it. On the roadside of the community, there was a small grid dedicated to recycling batteries. She had wanted to throw used batteries inside, but later found that the cleaners directly treated used batteries as domestic waste. "Batteries are contaminated. Can they be treated directly as domestic waste? "

Yesterday morning, the reporter came to the city center of changqing road eagle city square garbage collection bin. One staff member stated that they did not treat dry batteries specifically and that they were treated directly as household waste.

The reporter called the 12319 urban management hotline. The staff said that there are two types of garbage in the urban area: construction waste and domestic garbage. For dry batteries, no special treatment is done.

According to the policy on the prevention and control of waste battery pollution jointly issued by the State Environmental Protection Administration, the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Construction and other five ministerial departments in October 2003, for disposable dry batteries that have reached the national standard of low or no mercury, In the absence of effective recycling technology and economic support, centralized recycling is not encouraged. In addition, the main means of preventing and controlling environmental pollution by disposable dry batteries is to improve the level of harmfulness of batteries.

Pingdingshan No. 4 Middle School chemistry teacher Fenghongtao told reporters that they had done similar research on the harm and recycling of used batteries. Ordinary dry batteries are mainly zinc-manganese batteries, all containing mercury, manganese, cadmium, lead, zinc and other heavy metal substances. The five heavy metal substances mentioned above have been included in the National Hazardous Waste List and have become hazardous wastes under strict national control. These substances enter the human body through various channels, long-term savings are difficult to eliminate, damage the nervous system, hematopoietic function and bones, and can even cause cancer. However, the disposable batteries currently produced have basically reached the National low mercury or mercury-free standards. In the National Hazardous Waste Inventory published by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Public Security in June 2016, It was also made clear that nickel-cadmium and Mercury oxide batteries were still on the list of exemptions. Therefore, our daily use of common disposable dry batteries, which are basically alkaline mercury-free batteries, can be disposed of together with domestic waste and do not require special collection and disposal.

Yesterday afternoon, the reporter called 12369 environmental protection hotline, a male staff member who answered the phone said that the waste dry battery capacity is small, radiation is low, and now manufacturers are producing mercury-free batteries, can be treated as domestic waste.

A city environmental protection bureau staff said the following batteries need to be recycled: rechargeable batteries (nickel-metal hydrogen batteries), mobile phones, notebook batteries(lithium batteries), cars, electric vehicle batteries(lead-acid batteries) and so on. Because these batteries contain a certain amount of heavy metals, they are easily discarded and easily contaminated. It is best to find a qualified recycling point.

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