subject: Cell Recycle Waste Batteries [print this page] Residents of the used batteries into bins, is a symbol of public environmental awareness, because of which a part of the management in place, recycling bins into a new source of pollution. Although this article reflects only the phenomenon of a cell door, but in many other parts of China?
Half-box battery, a half rotten sewers and not also emit smells, is nausea. This placed in the control plot, Lane 107 River Village, next to the battery recycling box guard room, has become an embarrassing symbol.
Never one to recover
Yesterday afternoon, reporters came to Yanji in the way of control in the River Village, Alley 107, cell guard room, about half a meter high blue battery recycling bins placed in the guard room on the roof. As the constantly emit smells, the lid was a piece of scrap brick pressing. Opened, pungent gas is involuntary nausea, a half-decay half the battery box, which also mixed with other garbage bags, some rust bottom of the battery was red (see Figure Xuyi Ru Chang). The box side of the home, there have been sewage outflow from the original, which is penetrated to the rain when it rains.
Master told reporters the guard, recycling bins placed about a year now: "No one ever had to recover!" And similar bins in the district of Cangzhou guard room next to the road there is a, which are all garbage, no batteries, as if into a of a trash can.
Recovery time or by volume
Siping, said head of the property, the street recycling bins is controlled Jiang issued by environment and sanitation management, "They did not care how we had dealt with the fact that we did not deal with the capacity of waste." However, the reporter was removed from the Sanitation Department head was informed that issued the bins, was a conference, from sanitation are responsible for notifying the property went to recycling, recovery is not naturally without notice. Fortunately, yesterday afternoon, the property has been contacted by the sanitation, the person that will go to recovery today.
Reporter learned from the city Department of Waste Management, battery recycling box after the onward transport of small areas, sanitation is in accordance with the frequency of visits which the recovery time (monthly) or by quantity (at least on the revenue), which by and property by the sanitation consultation based on the actual situation or the neighborhood committee decided.
For example, in Long Wu road Ziyang garden is based on the frequency of once every two weeks, from the town of Hua Jing-site sanitation are recovered. Neighborhood of iron each building is also set up a small basket of additional office, so that residents pay close to the battery, do not deliberately go to the guard room or neighborhood.
Sanitation by the recovery of batteries, the unified stacked to a specific yard, filled, then at the higher level department responsible for transportation or landfill.
Just put on the recovery
In fact, used batteries for recycling, in 2003 promulgated the "Waste Battery Pollution Prevention Technology Policy" in this way had the states: the collection of waste batteries focus on waste rechargeable batteries and button disposable batteries, Zaique Fa Youxiaohuishou of technical and economic conditions, do not encourage collecting has reached the state of low concentration of mercury or mercury-free scrap disposable batteries required.
This is because now the battery "family" production "threshold" has been improved significantly reduced mercury content. Many academics believe that such cells are generally of solid waste, along with other household waste can be buried in a landfill. So this mean that the public life of the battery is not common within the recovery and recycling of used batteries must first category, this way, the operation is more difficult for it not?
This, the City Waste Management Office, said national policies that are "not encouraging", currently in Shanghai, regardless of the battery, as long as people put into recycling bins, will be treated as hazardous waste all recycled. In fact, the academic community with low mercury or mercury-free batteries can refuse to deal with when living, has been controversial, many professionals believe that, when the solid waste handled is not appropriate.
