"Shantou Metropolis Daily" (Reporter Liu Wanping) A small waste battery may also bring a deep-seated environmental crisis! At the Fifth Session of the Tenth National People’s Congress, Lin Qingyuan, the representative of the National People’s Congress of our city, put forward the "Recommendations on the Establishment of a Waste Battery Recycling and Recycling System" and called on relevant government departments to take effective measures to do a good job in the recycling and recycling of used batteries. , Reduce its pollution to the environment.
Lin Qingyuan pointed out in the suggestion that there are currently more than 1,000 battery manufacturers in my country, of which less than 15% of large battery manufacturers can mass produce low mercury and no mercury, and a large number of small enterprises produce batteries with high mercury. The mercury content of batteries is uneven, some are of good quality, less than one part per million; some are extremely poor, 20 times higher than the standard for low-mercury batteries, and 10,000 times higher than the standard for mercury-free batteries. Once these low-quality batteries are randomly discarded in the soil, not only the mercury in the batteries will cause pollution, but heavy metals such as zinc, manganese, cadmium, and lead will rot into the ground with domestic garbage, which will also cause pollution. These harmful substances enter the human body along the food chain and will greatly threaten human health.
In fact, although the environmental pollution problems that may be caused by used batteries have received widespread attention, the recycling and treatment of used batteries has progressed slowly. The reporter learned that since August 2002, our city has put 30 waste battery collection bins on the streets of urban areas on a trial basis. It is the first attempt to separate hazardous waste from domestic garbage. A dual-purpose trash box was added to the road section (the upper layer is a waste battery collection box). However, for more than 4 years, the current situation of waste battery recycling and processing has been very embarrassing. Basically, no citizens have made a special trip to put waste batteries in. Even if there are a small amount of waste batteries, they are cleaning up. In the process, they were not selected in time.
Lin Qingyuan believes that the recycling and regeneration of used batteries can produce value that cannot be underestimated. For example, 3000 tons of used secondary batteries can recover 141 tons of miscellaneous zinc ingots, 300 tons of metallurgical manganese dioxide, 260 tons of iron sheets, 181 tons of electrolytic zinc, 340 tons of electrolytic manganese dioxide, and 500 tons of iron sheets, which are worth the equivalent of two medium-sized national developments. Mine expenses, and these are non-renewable one-time resources. To this end, Lin Qingyuan suggested that the news media should vigorously promote the significance of the recycling and recycling of waste batteries to promote environmental protection, resource conservation and people's health; relevant government departments should adopt financial support policies to establish battery recycling and processing enterprises. The waste batteries that have been collected centrally are processed in accordance with the treatment methods of solid hazardous waste; the secondary batteries are recycled and recycled, and the battery recycling and recycling enterprises are established to avoid the waste of renewable resources; button batteries, mobile phone batteries, and charging The four types of batteries and lead-acid livestock batteries contain heavy metals and other harmful batteries. The relevant government departments should issue relevant industry regulations as soon as possible, and formulate actual management and implementation rules, so that the treatment of waste batteries can run on the track of industrial policies; establish as soon as possible Improve the voluntary recycling system of used batteries in the system. The voluntary recycling system can adopt the method of establishing public collection facilities; while the establishment of a mandatory recycling system can pass legislation requiring producers and sellers to collect their product waste.
