Battery of tastes - car battery business
Battery of tastes - car battery business
Battery of tastes - car battery business
THIS IS one piece of good news for the real honest-to-goodness environmentalist groups, as against the fake out-for-the-money types.
The Aquino (Part II) administration plans to force the public to return used car (or truck or tricycle or FX) batteries to their original local makers.
In the car battery business, such a transaction is known as "trade-in." In a way, the government wants it to become mandatory.
Presumably, the government wants some strict handling of this hazardous waste to which, unfortunately, we are exposed every day.
All over the country, we see used batteries Acer as07b41 batterylaying around some junk shops for dismantling into scrap materials, mainly the lead plates.
There is now a lot of money in the used battery lead. Some groups are consolidating and exporting the scrap accumulated by the junk-shop operators. Those groups are making a killing. Junk-shop operations are cheap. We all know how crude those shops work. They mostly do not have even just a semblance of safety, not to mention government supervision.
For one, the workers are exposed to toxic and hazardous materials in the car batteries, not to mention the entire neighborhood.
Eventually, of course, those hazardous waste materials should find their way somewhere in the ecosystem, particularly the water. Who knows, one day they should also reach our taste buds.
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Now, the so-called consolidators would rather export the scrap lead because they could set a price higher than that offered by the local battery manufacturers.
The battery makers, nevertheless, are just too willing to acquire the used batteries for recycling of the materials, particularly the lead, although it is suicide for them to match the export price.
Well, the local industry follows strict government rules on the handling of hazardous waste, which of course costs a lot of money; and the junk shops, of course, do not.
We have heard of this worldwide trend known as "corporate responsibility." Manufacturers of electronics, for instance, spend a fortune for disposal of the used items for junk. Really, despite the tremendous cost! And they gain nothing in return.
In the local battery Hp pavilion dv7 batterybusiness, it is the other way around: If the companies do not get back the scrap materials for recycling, they lose a lot of money because they have to pay through their teeth for new supplies of the same materials that go to junk shops for export.
We are talking here about this industry, with all its thousands of workers, which is facing a financial problem caused by junk shops.
It is a unique problem for the battery industry. Other local industries collapsed because of importationactually, it is smuggling. We can cite the cases of the tire manufacturing and textile industries.
In business, they say that those two industries were victims of the change in government policies, the one called trade liberalization, which from the start was expected to harm local industries to the point of collapsing.
For the battery-making sector, its demise may not be caused by government policies. It is more of government apathy. Hey, who is implementing the rules on environment protection that should check the proliferation of those junk shops handling hazardous materials?
That is why in business circles, they have this unkind way of comparing our leader Benigno Simeon (a.k.a. BS) with his father, the martyred former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., and it goes like this: "Ninoy, hindi ka nag-iisa; Noynoy, hindi ka nag-iisip."
At least there are only one or two different letters of the alphabet in those slogans.
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And so anyway the battery people have cited those two reasons to ask the Aquino (Part II) administration for a bit of action to solve the problem facing the industryyou know, the danger to the environment and the possible collapse of the industry.
Their trade association, known as the Philippine Association of Battery Manufacturers Inc., or Pabmi, already submitted volumes of position papers to the government.
From what I gathered, the administration is set to act on the request of the industry, meaning, that the government should start to regulate strictly the handling of the lead derived from used batteries.
For one, the government wants to mandate the return of used batteries to its manufacturers for proper treatment and recycling.
According to Pabmi, we already have enough laws to cover the measures needed to solve the problem. Among them are RA 6969 and RA 9003.
The first one, RA 6969, is known as the Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act, already providing (as its title indicates) the rules and regulations on handling of hazardous wastes.
Under the law, anybody (including our neighborhood junk shop) that handles hazardous wastes must get permits and licenses. And guess how many of the exporters of used battery Acer aspire 5920 batterylead have those permits.
The same law spells out ways for "mandatory" recovery by the manufacturers of hazardous wastes in their products.
The other law, RA 9003, is known as the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act, dealing with ecological solid waste management, such as segregation and recycling.
Between those two laws, I guess the Aquino (Part II) administration has all the weapons the Palace boys need to solve the problem in the used-car-battery business.
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