Where should you throw away your batteries？

Alkaline manganese battery

Commonly used equipment: alkaline manganese battery can be used for any device, from a camera and a flashlight to the remote control can use it.

Recycling method: throw into ordinary trash can. Because have stopped using mercury in alkaline manganese batteries. If you decide to throw alkaline manganese battery into the trash can, you can take the following measures to prevent leakage: 1, will be more than one battery is installed in the same plastic bag;2, each battery terminals with duct tape.

Recycling results: these batteries can obtain steel and zinc, which are two kinds of valuable metals.

Nickel cadmium battery

Commonly used equipment: nickel cadmium battery is cheaper version of the rechargeable alkaline batteries, can charge the battery for hundreds of times. A lot of famous brand of rechargeable batteries are often the Ni-Mh batteries.

Recycling method: part of the nickel cadmium battery price include of the cost of recycling. Because of containing toxic cadmium metal, not throw away in the dump. In the supermarket, there will be a nickel cadmium and nickel metal hydride batteries collection points.

Recycling results: heated to high temperature metal nickel and iron separated from low temperature metal zinc and cadmium; After melting in some metal solidification, and the others as a metal oxide.

Lithium ion batteries

Commonly used equipment: The lithium battery is one of the most advanced technology for rechargeable, usually used in mobile phones and consumer electronics. These cells can also be used as a electric power supply.

The recycling method: do not store or lithium battery into the landfill, one reason is that when they contact with high temperature, it might overheat and burst. In most cases, dealing with mobile phones, laptops and other electronic equipment company will deal with the battery. So, you can easily find recycling locations.

Recycling results: these batteries recycling method is the same as the nickel cadmium battery, to generate useful metal.

Silver oxide battery

Commonly used equipment: this is a kind of common button cell, often used in calculators, hearing AIDS and watches. In addition to the small size, button cell of other features include a longer shelf life and can be used as usual under low temperature, etc.

Recycling method: silver oxide batteries, and other button cell containing mercury, so must be recycled. In most cases, there will be a professional to replace the battery, may I ask whether they can help you to recycle batteries.

Recycling results: usually crushed to recycle useful metal.

Lead-acid battery

Commonly used equipment: to provide electricity for automation equipment, such as cars, boats, motorcycles.

Recycling method: similar to other cells. If you buy a new battery, can first ask about the old battery recycling method.

Recycling results: recycling, lead-acid batteries can be divided into: plastic, lead, and sulfuric acid. Polypropylene plastic will be reprocessed into new battery shell, lead will be reprocessed, for the new battery. Acid would be neutralised, and through the sewage treatment plant to clean, otherwise, will be converted into sodium sulfate, used in clothes cleaner.

How simple, environmentally friendly processing waste batteries?1 to the community residents' committees 2 30, there seems to be a recycle old batteries for gifts.3 to the recycling center. The dangers of the harm of waste battery used batteries: the harm of waste battery in which mainly contains a small amount of heavy metals, such as lead, mercury, cadmium, etc. These toxic substances into the body, by all means is difficult to rule out long-term savings, and bone damage the nervous system, hematopoietic function, it can even cause cancer. Lead: nervous system (neurasthenia, hands and feet numbness, digestive system (indigestion, abdominal cramps), blood poisoning and other lesions. Hg: mental state change is a major symptoms of mercury poisoning. Pulse quickened, muscle tremor, oral cavity and digestive system disease. Cadmium, mn: the main harm the nervous system. Waste battery pollution environment of the way: the battery material in use process, sealed inside the battery shell, will not impact on the environment. But after a long-term mechanical wear and corrosion, make internal heavy metal and acid and alkali and other leaked, into the soil or water, will enter the human food chain through various means. Process description is as follows: soil microbial pool animal circulation dust crops food human neural deposition disease. Experts believe that because the battery pollution has great cycle is long, concealment, its potential harm is quite serious, improper handling can cause secondary pollution. According to Dr Yi-fu Yang, our country some farmers in the coastal province in the recovery of lead in lead-acid battery, because of improper recycling, throw away the waste liquid containing lead and sulfuric acid, not only cause of lead poisoning, and makes the local crops can't grow. Section 1 battery rot in the field, can make 1 square meters of permanent loss of soil utilization value; A grain of button batteries can make 600 tons of water has been polluted, the equivalent of a man's life's water consumption. A grain of button cell can be 600000 liters of water pollution, the amount of water is equal to a person's life. Section battery rot in the field, can lose one square metre of land use value, so the waiting waste battery is said to be "pollution bomb" a little bit too much. Ordinary dry-cell batteries, we use in our daily mainly include acid zinc manganese battery and alkaline zinc manganese battery, they all contain mercury, manganese, cadmium, lead, zinc and other metal material, abandoned waste batteries, battery shell, will slowly corrosion of metal material will gradually penetrate into bodies of water and soil, cause pollution. The biggest characteristic of heavy metal pollution is that it is in nature can't degradation, only by purifying effect, eliminate the pollution. The harm of waste battery in which mainly contains a small amount of heavy metal on metal species harm the performance of the accumulation of excessive amounts of manganese in the body cause neurological dysfunction, early performance for comprehensive function disorder. JiaoChongZhe appeared two legs sink, language, expression is inflexible, emotional indifference, often accompanied by mental symptoms. Zinc zinc salts can make proteins to precipitate, can irritate the mucous membrane of skin membrane. When the concentration in the water for more than 10-50 mm s/l have a carcinogenic risk, may cause chemical pneumonia. Lead: lead mainly ACTS on the nervous system, blood system, digestive system and liver, kidney and other organs can inhibit the synthesis of hemoglobin metabolic process, also can be applied directly to mature red blood cells, effect on infants and young children, it will lead to children's physical retardation, chronic lead poisoning can lead to children's mental retardation. Nickel and nickel powder dissolved in the blood, to the body circulation, has the strong toxicity, can damage the central nervous system, causing blood vessel variation, serious cause cancer. Mercury, it is the most worth mentioning in the heavy metal pollutants, the heavy metals, the harm to the human, does not light, long-term since, our country in the production of dry cells, to join a poisonous substances - mercury or mercury compounds, alkaline batteries in China of the mercury content of 1-5%, neutral dry cells was 0.025%, the country each year for the production of dry cells of mercury has obvious neurotoxicity, in addition to the endocrine system, immune system also has bad effects, such as in 1953, took place in Japan's kyushu minamata disease incident shocked the world, the mercury pollution to human beings. Heavy metal pollution, threatening the health of human beings, human beings ignore the control of heavy metal pollution, will eventually swallow the bitter legacy of the brewed, therefore, strengthen the recycling of waste batteries are more and more important.

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