Used batteries to deal with difficulties
Last year, Nanjing 2000 barrels to collect used batteries from the tertiary institutions in Nanjing, organs such as office areas and residential areas to the recovery of 33 tons of used batteries. However, on the recycling of used batteries has always been a problem.
Before the State Environmental Protection Administration and other departments jointly issued the battery waste pollution prevention and control technology policy, which identifies the focus of the recovery of used batteries is discarded rechargeable batteries and button batteries. In this regard, the Office of Municipal Waste Segregation in the collection of day-to-day work, they noted that many of these batteries is not only a very small part. At the same time, according to the survey, the country has reached a low mercury or mercury-free disposable battery waste a lot of the same or contain harmful substances. Many members of the public consciousness has not yet used batteries should be put in categories.
Random in the vicinity of Shanxi two district asked 56 people, the elderly generally not distinguish whether the battery is rechargeable, and there are several people that he rarely used rechargeable batteries. Some of them that ordinary people have not thrown with the life of the battery separately, if also at what rechargeable batteries, and even more trouble.
Separate collection of municipal refuse staff office told reporters that battery recycling technology in the country is a difficult problem and even the whole world, every year a lot of enthusiasm to the public and university students used batteries to do research in this area, but there are still no good solution, the collection of used batteries to the main door to the vicinity of Nanjing a warehouse, from environmental protection departments to focus on, mainly landfill. The reason is that a machine used batteries to deal with the need to import from abroad, and the high cost of a large throughput, can handle every day for several tons of batteries, used batteries, Nanjing local enough that it simply “eat” a few days from around the brought to focus on cities, which also involves a lot of problems. Cost of this approach is still used batteries so that now the only solution to the old landfill.
Office staff said that at present, only the work to be done to further promote the collection barrels will be used batteries in the garbage as far as possible from the spin-off, to reduce environmental pollution, this year, Nanjing, they will conduct a study of six urban areas, in accordance with the demand for and then placed a number of barrels to collect used batteries, raise awareness of environmental protection.