Why no one dares to recycle 200kg of used lithium batteries?

Recently, Shijiazhuang engaged in electric vehicle after-sales service of Mr. Wang called for help, his hands saved nearly 200 kilograms of used lithium batteries. Because of the serious environmental pollution caused by lithium batteries, he dared not throw them away at will. He searched for several days and hoped to find an institution to recycle them, but failed to find one. This reporter contacted the relevant departments and lithium battery manufacturers, are not willing to recycle the used lithium battery electric vehicle.

Waste lithium battery recycling door

Mr. Wang told reporters that he was in Shijiazhuang city in the west of Zhongshan road to open a home electric vehicle maintenance shop, engaged in electric vehicle after-sales service for seven or eight years, because the battery life of electric vehicles is limited, after a period of time to use the need to replace, he saved about 200 kilograms of old lithium batteries in the maintenance process.

Mr. Wang did not find a place to recycle old lithium batteries. He wanted to give them to the recycling center for free, but the other side would not accept them. Instead, he advised him to "just throw them away". He learned on the Internet that there is a waste lithium battery disposal center for electric vehicles in Guangdong, want to send these batteries to Guangdong, but the freight has to pay their own, waste batteries are easy to explode, for safety reasons, the shipping company is not willing to transport.

The recycling system is not complete

According to Mr. Wang, the current market for electric vehicle battery configuration mainly includes traditional lead-acid batteries and emerging lithium batteries, more than 80 percent of electric vehicle batteries are lead-acid batteries. Lead-acid battery appeared early, large scale, recycling market is relatively mature. "An old lead-acid battery weighs eight and a half pounds and can sell for 33 yuan, or three or four yuan a kilo." Mr. Wang said he saved enough lead-acid batteries to call the recycling center and someone came to the store to collect them. "These recycling stations sell used batteries to battery treatment plants, which extract the lead from the batteries and reuse it to produce new batteries, forming a complete production chain."

The recycling of lithium batteries is quite different. At present, domestic lithium battery recycling system, recycling enterprises are few, backward technology. Wang searched for a long time only to find that some southern provinces have electric car lithium battery recycling plant.

Production companies say there are no processing channels

Mr. Wang said that according to the regulations of the relevant departments of the state, the recycling of used lithium batteries in electric vehicles should be carried out by enterprises producing lithium batteries for electric vehicles. But he contacted the manufacturer before, the other side is not willing to recycle.

The reporter understands, our country had issued relevant law as early as 2003, requirement electric car produces an enterprise to must assume the responsibility that wastes old electric car lithium battery recycles. According to the phone that Mr. Wang provides, reporter of this newspaper contacted Shenzhen a company that produces lithium battery of electric car. The company said it was not responsible for recycling lithium batteries from used electric cars because it had no way to dispose of them even if they were.

Scrap lithium battery recycling blank

Shijiazhuang city has always attached great importance to the pollution of waste batteries, and has set up a special municipal environmental protection department waste battery recycling station to take charge of the recycling of waste batteries. However, when asked about the recycling of lithium batteries for electric vehicles, the person in charge of the waste battery recycling station of Shijiazhuang municipal environmental protection department said that they are only responsible for recycling the waste batteries for electronic products, and they are not responsible for recycling the waste lithium batteries for electric vehicles, because the recycling amount of such lithium batteries is very small, and they have no way to deal with it centrally. Then the reporter through the Internet query to Shijiazhuang a material recycling company recycling lithium batteries, but the company said only recycling electric vehicle lead-acid batteries, or small electronic products lithium batteries, these waste batteries recycling will be sold to Shenzhen enterprises. As for the nearly 200kg of used lithium batteries in Mr. Wang's hands, no enterprise wants them, and they are not responsible for recycling.