Hazards of Waste Batteries

China Waste Battery Problem

The potential contamination of waste batteries has caused widespread concern in the community. China is the world's number one battery production and consumption country, our data show that China currently has more than 1,400 battery manufacturers and in the year of 1980, dry battery production has surpassed the United States and ranked first in the world. Dry battery production in China in 1998 reached 14 billion, while the total production of the world's dry battery is about 30 billion at the same year. The large quantity of batteries makes a great deal of problems exposed, and that is, how to make so many silver oxide batteries do not damage the environment that people survive.

Hazardous Substances of Used Batteries

According to the survey, the used batteries contains heavy metals and waste acid, waste alkali electrolyte solution. If improperly discarded, corruption battery will destroy the people's water supply, erosion of human survival crops and land, is facing a huge threat to people's living environment. If a 1st battery rot in the ground, it's toxic substances can make a square meter of land lost value in use; throw a coin cell battery into the water, the toxic substances contained in it which will cause 60 million liters of water pollution, equivalent to the water consumption of a person's life; waste button cell battery contains heavy metals cadmium, lead, mercury, nickel, zinc, manganese, and the larger substances including cadmium, lead, mercury is harmful to human health. While a metal such as nickel, zinc, in a certain concentration range is useful material, but in the environment if it exceeds the limit, and it will also cause harm to humans.

Big Dangers of Waste Batteries

Therefore, the collection and disposal of waste batteries is very important. If disposed improperly, it may cause serious harm to the ecological environment and human health. Feel free to discard used batteries only pollute the environment, but also a waste of resources. Some have calculated that the national annual production of 10 billion battery, the annual consumption of 156,000 tons of zinc, 226,000 tons of manganese dioxide, 2080 tons of copper, 27,000 tons of zinc chloride, 79,000 tons of ammonium chloride, 4.3 ten thousand tons of carbon rod. Despite the advanced technology has been given to the right point, but the battery pollution phenomenon is still not optimistic. The most used batteries mixed with household waste are buried together, over time, after transforming the battery rotting and leaching of heavy metals, may contaminate groundwater bodies, and may contaminate the soil, eventually find their way into the human food chain. And if people absorbs the hazardous food, that will be very dangerous.

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