A dry rot in the ground, make one square meter of soil permanent loss of use value; while a AG3Button batteries can make 600 tons of water contaminated drinking water is equivalent to the amount of a person's life, which is quite alarming figures. Recently, this topic of used batteries pollution in major microblogging, forums are widespread, some call for the collection of used batteries, there are also known as national ministries have already sent a file is no longer advocated recovered. Is our used batteries, to close or not to close it?

About waste battery recycling problems in Internet forums have always been people in the discussion, but the focus is not the most controversial nobody handle used batteries, but does not promote national ministries already collected. This time, so many people feeling enthusiastic environmental poured cold water. If you do not waste battery recycling, why it set up recycling bins? Does the used batteries pollution problems just do nothing? Contaminated waste batteries really alarmist do?

Shenzhen Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau official said, in the past one AG3Button batteries as ordinary mercury content is higher, if thrown away not only causes environmental hazards, but there may be a threat to human safety. However, with the improvement in the production process, and now the batteries are basically low mercury or mercury pollution is relatively much smaller and therefore can be used with ordinary waste. In fact, in 2003 the State Environmental Protection Department (formerly SEPA) issued a notice on a joint multiple departments are no longer encouraged to recycle disposable batteries.

Then later you can just throw used batteries yet? Actually not so simple. It is understood that, although no longer promote recycling disposable batteries, but nickel cadmium, nickel metal hydride, lithium ion, lead-acid batteries and other rechargeable batteries, and button batteries are still being recovered as a key project. These people pointed out that because of this type of battery is rich in heavy metals or active chemical substances, such as cadmium is very toxic, carcinogenic and harmful to kidney function directly; lithium batteries in general high temperature environment will become particularly unstable, easily cause a fire explosion.

But who is responsible for this type of battery recycling it? State Environmental Protection Ministry have been clearly defined, manufacturers, importers, the use of such cell products manufacturer, and a battery trademark holders should bear the responsibility for recycling these batteries. Meanwhile Ministry of Environmental Protection suggested that such relevant persons responsible for recycling, recovery system should be set up in the sales office set up recycling points.

However, we can refer to the practice of some developed countries, to all battery manufacturers charge a pollution gold, by a third party social organization operations to ensure that the battery of environmental pollution and a threat to humanity.