Citizens have saved a lot of waste batteries, environmental protection citizens do not know how to trick experts said: It's okay, throw it away!

Jellyfish network - April 29 (YMG reporter for back) yesterday, Mr. Li who lives near the yantai hill market from party newspaper hotline, worn by asking The battery What should I do? Throw will damage the environment? The journalists were investigated.

Citizen: trash can lack of detailed classification

"His home most of the waste batteries are removed from old mobile phone, flashlight. Because I don't know where there is recycled, so has been saved in the home, have saved up a plastic bag filled with now."Mr. Li told reporters. A similar situation and more than Mr. Li, in the interview process, most people don't know how to deal with waste batteries.

Ms. Sun in Fushun estates have the same confusion."One time I watch the news know the waste batteries harm to the environment, began to pay attention to the collection of waste batteries. Also has two children, children often play games with a battery, know after pollution, battery began to pay attention to the storage battery. Accumulate a plastic bottle, where lost or not lost, lost, are not clear where to recycle.", 'says Ms. Sun village in the trash can not fine classification, therefore can only be used batteries with household garbage discarded.

Subsequently, the reporters came to the near south street culture center square, personally see a dozen garbage. Reporter discovery, each one never has a circular hole, marked with the word "battery", so that citizens on the waste battery. Through the small hole reporter discovery, two recycling box only three or four section dry cell, other than is given priority to with cigarette butts, confetti, etc. Three station technology markets, mainly sell mobile phone repair and parts of two stores, said recycling old mobile phone batteries and chargers have no profits, not recycled.

Dry cell can and living garbage processing

The reporter understands, had the greatest influence on the environment of five kinds of heavy metals, arsenic, lead, cadmium, chromium and mercury. Inside the battery, mainly in the lead battery lead, cadmium and nickel cadmium battery as additives in alkaline zinc manganese battery is mercury. In addition several common battery, such as The lithium battery Negligible amounts of toxic heavy metals.

And nickel cadmium battery in the nineties of the last century, has been widely applied to small devices such as mobile phone, but now mobile phone batteries have been used is more useful Lithium electricity Replaced by the pool. As a result, "a piece of waste battery pollution intensity is 100 times that of ordinary alkaline batteries, and can be 60000 liters of water, serious pollution is equivalent to three standard swimming pool", if this sentence is the most common of mobile phone batteries, lithium-ion batteries is clearly false.

"Normally used batteries account for larger people daily use is more dry cell 1, 5, 7."The municipal environmental protection bureau staff of the pollution control department related, "at present, because this kind of battery has reached no mercury or low production at the levels of mercury, given the current disposal technology and regeneration cost and do not do special recycling, allow with living garbage processing."

Battery needs to focus on recycling, etc

So need not recycle used batteries? So the staff is introduced, in addition to dry cell, and type of rechargeable battery in daily life, such as automotive batteries, etc. This kind of battery with large damage to the environment, the state will it as a hazardous waste, and requirements for centralized recovery of harmless disposal, do not pay attention to recycling can cause great harm to the environment."Similar to a car battery, require manufacturers responsible for recycling, then unified handling."In the "from" environment day in previous years, the municipal environmental protection department had joint related recycling enterprises in waste battery recycling activities, has been well received by the majority of citizens.

But can not be ignored is that the current manufacturing enterprises can establish regular recycling waste battery system is still in the minority. For an ideal waste battery recycling system is this: the batteries battery manufacturers to sell to the citizens, citizens after use in the recycling bin, the battery in the recycling bins further collection, summary to the battery recycling enterprise, extract the useful materials in the waste batteries, battery recycling enterprises to provide battery manufacturers as production of raw materials. There is no waste produced and released into the environment, forming potential sources of pollution。

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