Waste battery recycling box into a new source of pollution

The investigation found that many used battery recycling bins placed at the entrance of the residential area were quite inexact. Because they were not disposed of properly, the used batteries became more and more, and the recycling box became a new source of pollution.

Randomly visited several districts in Xinzhuang Town, next to the guard room of Urban Star City, Lane 111, Fudu Road, there was a white waste battery recovery box about half a meter high. The waste batteries in the barrel had been piled up to one third because It is placed in the open air, and the residual rainwater in the barrel is mixed with the waste battery and emits a pungent odor. The bottom and the inner wall of the recovery box were rust-red, and some of the batteries showed signs of decay. The box was placed on the side and the bottom was drained.

The Jinming New Waterfront Community on Tengchong Road is basically the same. The person in charge of Jinmingxin Waterfront Property said, “Recycling boxes were issued by the township's environmental sanitation management institute. They did not take care of how we handled them. Moreover, we did not have the ability to handle waste.”

The Waste Battery Pollution Prevention and Control Technology Policy stipulates that, in the absence of effective technical and economic recovery, it does not encourage the centralized collection of waste disposable batteries that have reached the country's low mercury or mercury-free requirements. Many professionals believe that regardless of the type of battery used as a household waste, they are not suitable and should be disposed of professionally.

It can be seen that the public’s method of disposing of used batteries has become an irrational act of creating secondary pollution sources. However, how to dispose of these used batteries? Maybe it can only wait for the progress of science and technology and the promulgation of new policies.