The recycling of waste lead-acid batteries meets three bottlenecks

In recent years, automobile, electric bicycle ownership and energy storage areas growing demand for lead-acid batteries, lead-acid battery scrap also increases rapidly in our country, but at present, our country scrap lead-acid battery recycling industry development is not standard. Recycling channels are more chaotic. Many illegal or irregular enterprise and illegal business are serious. The environmental problems become the obstacles in the development of industry. Specifically, the factors restricting the recycling of waste lead-acid batteries in China are mainly reflected in the following aspects.

Incomplete policies and regulations affect the development of industry standardization

Although China has issued many relevant policies and regulations, but because of the lack of supporting each other and the lack of recycling technical specifications, directly affect the recycling and disposal of formal enterprises. One is the current scrap lead-acid battery recycling disposal of laws, regulations, strengthen the management on both ends of the production and regeneration, but the lack of recycling link among players and consumers to standardize the behavior of disposal of waste lead acid storage battery, by contrast, the United States, Japan and other developed countries of battery recycling regulations for distributors, retailers, consumers have a clear constraints. Second, China's recycling of waste lead-acid batteries of financial tax support and subsidies are limited, and considering the environmental pollution of batteries, the battery production enterprises levy a consumption tax of 4%, greatly increasing the cost of enterprises. Through informal channels, so as to prevent secondary lead enterprises or means to obtain preferential tax rebates, disturb the order of the industry, the secondary lead enterprise 50% tax support policy of refunding upon payment of the out was cut to 30%, but this adjustment makes the original people of the high cost in the environmental protection and management of the formal secondary lead enterprise profit space further compressed, formal enterprise struggle, but without any active environmental protection measures and tax illegal enterprises, lead to the result of "bad money drive out good money". Compared with China, the United States, Japan and the European Union and other developed countries and regions adopt the deposit system, government subsidies or environmental taxes paid by consumers to support the recycling of waste lead-acid batteries. Third, the inter-provincial transfer of waste lead-acid battery application procedures cumbersome and inefficient, the lack of effective waste lead-acid battery transfer single filing system, leading to the collection of waste lead-acid battery transfer cost, long time.

Supervision and punishment is not strong enough to cause many illegal enterprises into the market

Due to the lack of effective supervision and strong punishment constraints, private traders, illegal big recyclers and illegal smelters have the opportunity, resulting in serious illegal operation and disorderly competition. First, the battery retailers, car repair and 4S stores and other outlets lack of effective regulatory means, mostly through law enforcement through consultation to warn not to allow its waste lead-acid batteries sold at will to no recycling qualification of units and individual traders, so it is difficult to effectively put an end to illegal recycling behavior. Second, the individual private traders, large recyclers and other illegal recycling disposal of waste lead-acid batteries punishment is not enough. The punishment is mainly hundreds of thousands of fines, and the punishment is relatively light. The illegal cost of enterprises and individual traders is low, so it is difficult to fundamentally crack down on the most active subjects in the whole gray recycling industry chain. Compared with China, the United States has a sound legal protection in the recycling of waste lead-acid batteries. Failure to dispose of waste lead-acid batteries according to regulations will be subject to different degrees of fines and even penalties according to state laws. Third, the lack of supervision measures for lead-acid battery enterprises to implement the extended producer responsibility system, there is no strict punishment measures for enterprises not to fulfill the extended producer responsibility system, the main producer responsibility in the waste lead-acid battery recycling link has not fully played its role. Fourth, as the owner of the waste lead-acid battery, consumers' random disposal of the waste lead-acid battery will not be subject to the corresponding supervision and punishment, resulting in consumers' low awareness and consciousness of sending the complete waste lead-acid battery to the designated recycling network.

Imperfect incentive mechanism affects the enthusiasm of the whole industry chain

In the recycling system of waste lead-acid batteries, there is a close interest relationship between the participants of the whole industry chain, and the imperfect incentive mechanism will directly affect the enthusiasm of the participants in the recycling of waste lead-acid batteries. First, there is no mutually beneficial economic incentive mechanism between the lead-acid battery manufacturer and the seller. The seller's recycling of the waste lead-acid battery for the manufacturer can only offset part of the payment for new batteries. There are no other preferential incentives, which affects the seller's enthusiasm to participate in the recycling of the waste lead-acid battery. 2 it is snapped up by some illegal companies are scrambling for bidding, price advantage to preempt the supply of goods, and regular recycling not corresponding economic stimulation, point-of-sale driven by economic interests, the spent lead-acid batteries to sell high-priced recycling, scrap lead-acid battery recycling market competition, affect the effective implementation of the extended producer responsibility system. Third, most of the recycling lead enterprises and production enterprises are independent units, which lack the economic contract to guarantee the win-win situation of both sides to stabilize the mutually beneficial cooperation. Fourth, most enterprises in the industrial chain of waste lead-acid battery recycling and utilization are small and medium-sized enterprises. Due to limited financing support measures, their financing needs cannot be met, which affects their development and improvement of recycling capacity.

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