Can you throw away old batteries now?

At 11 a.m. the day before yesterday, @ CCTV (China central television news, Sina official Weibo): waste battery can't be literally thrown. The Beijing municipal environmental protection department said the current home AA and AAA lithium battery had met the national requirement of low mercury or mercury free technology, so it can be thrown away with the daily life garbage, and don't need to focus on recycling. Note: other buttons such as batteries, electric vehicle battery lead battery and nickel cadmium battery still needs to be recycled.

Then each big media Weibo have reproduced, microblogging exploded, some netizens exclaimed: battery for so many years, all Bai Cun!

In the concept of people, will throw used batteries pollution of soil and water, to its destination, recycling, and to concentrate processing. Now when I heard this statement, you can't catch you at the moment.

Many netizens on Weibo yesterday said he did not know such things.

@ 2013 summer blues: really? Too good, recently also for old batteries how to deal with and husband stroppy.

@ guard love: it is high time that I had saved a lot of, have been difficult how to deal with!

Others expressed concern that @ to market fishing Aojiang guest: keep every brand qualified? One thousand buy fake or substandard?

@ panzerlele: this statement is not rigorous, or see the product on the label shall prevail, if draw a fork of the trash can, can't throw.

Yesterday, the reporter also randomly asked about 30 people, there are 26 don't know what we commonly used 5, and 7 marked "mercury-free batteries can be thrown into the trash can, the other four watched Weibo just know still today.

In fact, as early as in 2003, our country has the measure.

Because of containing heavy metals such as cadmium, mercury lead battery pollution

Basic working principle of the battery anode materials are in the electrolyte effect issued by biochemical reaction, the chemical energy into electricity. Classified according to different standards and different, generally we have radio, remote control, common used in 5 alkaline batteries; Used in laptop computers and other digital equipment on the nickel cadmium battery (now main use do not contain cadmium, nickel metal hydride batteries);Heavy use of mobile phones lithium ion batteries; Use of lead-acid storage battery, car battery, electronic equipment on the button battery categories.

"We say at ordinary times the waste battery pollution, mainly because the battery contains three kinds of heavy metal cadmium mercury lead." Ningbo deer Gao Yibing said the battery's chief engineer, the three kinds of heavy metal toxicity are big, and retained in the environment of time is long, will also enters the body through the food chain to cause chronic poisoning, minamata disease in Japan is the typical case of mercury poisoning.

Of cadmium, lead is used as raw materials exist only in the nickel cadmium, lead-acid batteries, and mercury is in order to prolong the life time of the battery and add additive, before 2000 is widely used in the production process of the battery, no mercury has been the trend of battery production.

Ten years ago, countries don't encourage concentrated collecting waste batteries

To protect the environment, battery production "mercury-free" be on the agenda. On December 31, 1997, nine BuWeiJu countries such as China light industry association, the national environmental protection bureau jointly issued the "on the regulation of limit mercury battery products", which is to limit mercury battery products, "the first to implement low mercury, ultimately achieve mercury-free."

Mercury content in the low standards of mercury is the battery is lower than 0.025% by weight of the batteries, mercury-free standard is less than 0.0001% by weight of the battery. Since January 1, 2002, banning sales in the domestic market is higher than low mercury standard cells, since January 1, 2006, banned the sale is higher than the standard of mercury-free alkaline zinc manganese battery.

Around 2000 the Digititan, deer several large domestic battery manufacturers have introduced foreign advanced production line, start low mercury and mercury free battery production.

On October 9, 2003, the state environmental protection administration issued the "waste battery pollution control technology policy" pointed out: at present, under the condition of the lack of effective recycling technology economy, does not encourage centralized collection has reached the requirements of the countries with low or without mercury waste batteries.

Here "not to encourage" mainly aimed at the general population, but the battery manufacture and importer shall also bear the liability for recycling waste batteries. So, at least 10 years ago, the battery can be launched with household garbage

Waste battery treatment by the environmental protection department management, specific operation is in the charge of urban management. Hangzhou ChengGuanWei solid waste regulation center a staff said, last year the entire Hangzhou pickup 1.5 tons of harmful substances (mainly waste battery and lamp), in which waste battery is nearly 1 ton.

Can throw but can't throw to distinguish types to see id

When he heard that battery can put together with household garbage, some netizens immediately ready to use your saved up 5 years more than 100 battery practice shooting.

This is absolutely not, because not all batteries are now up to the standard. Here are several identified hazards battery type:

1. The button battery (according to the instructions of environmental protection units recycling)

This kind of battery is commonly used in all kinds of electronic products, such as computer motherboard, electronic watch, electronic dictionary, electronic scale, memory card, electric toys, heart pacemaker, hearing AIDS, electronic counters, etc.; Mainly include the button type alkaline batteries with silver oxide batteries, button batteries is still are beyond the scope of general dry cell mercury-free ban, still allow the existence of a small amount of mercury, it is said that a button battery can make 600 tons of water undrinkable, equivalent to a man's life's water consumption, so the button battery must be recycled in accordance with the instruction of the environmental protection unit.

2. Lead-acid batteries, commonly known as battery (professional institutions recycling)

Now running on the road, in addition to the car, is the storage battery, just this two kinds of our most popular traffic tools cannot leave the lead-acid battery, the battery contains large amounts of lead, don't throw away, to the best professional institutions recycling.

Xixi road a junkyard gold boss said, they here battery two pieces of eight around a jin of recycling, sell when two three hairs of money a kilo. Back to the downtown near the north garden pan battery size, 36 v12ah 100 yuan, 130 yuan of 48 v12ah, 48 v20ah 200 yuan. Hangzhou environmental protection bureau official website (http://www.hzepb.gov.cn/zwxx/gfjg/czdw/) "solid waste management," lists the qualified disposal of the lead-acid battery and waste mobile phone battery units.

3. The lithium ion battery (according to the instructions of environmental protection units recycling)

In our life, it is the most common cell phone lithium ion batteries. Deer battery Gao Yibing engineer said, the battery electrolyte is organic solvent, which contain toxic element fluorine, great harm to the soil or water leakage, also want to recycling.

4. Cylindrical alkaline batteries (mark by battery determine whether need to recycle)

It says these batteries shape we discern at a glance, but common cylindrical alkaline batteries in the home, will be carefully identified.

"The best way is to check the label on battery." Deer battery Gao Yibing engineer said, the current market sales of monomer battery products at home and abroad, must be marked with mercury, tagging method are different from each battery manufacturer, such as "no mercury", "mercury is zero", "mercury is 0", and mark can recycling icon, when they buy, only need to see the mercury content of the battery, you can know whether environmental protection battery, can you throw in the trash.

On October 26, 2006, the Chinese battery industry association also announced the first batch of alkaline manganese battery of green environmental protection product, 11 digititan, deer and other brands of alkaline manganese batteries. After the examination, the 11 companies alkaline manganese battery mercury levels are lower than mercury-free battery limit index of the mercury content of 0.0001%, and the mercury content in the contaminated soil close to, but together with household garbage landfill treatment.

Some calculated brushstroke zhang, in order to calculate the annual production of 10 billion small battery, annual consumption of 156000 tons of zinc, manganese dioxide 226000 tons, 2080 tons of copper and 27000 tons of zinc chloride and ammonium chloride 79000 tons, 43000 tons of carbon rod." From the perspective of environmental protection said that this kind of battery is safe, but from the perspective of the sustainable utilization of resources throw waste batteries is a huge waste of resources."

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