How to deal with the hazards of littering batteries

Waste battery hazards:

Scientific studies have shown that a button battery can pollute 600,000 liters of water after being discarded into nature, which is equivalent to the water consumption of a person's lifetime, and China consumes 7 billion such batteries every year. It is understood that 96% of the batteries produced in China are zinc-manganese batteries and alkaline manganese batteries, and their main components are manganese, mercury, zinc and other heavy metals. Whether the waste battery is in the atmosphere or buried deep underground, its heavy metal components will overflow with the leachate, causing groundwater and soil pollution, and will seriously endanger human health over time.

In 1998, mercury, cadmium, zinc, lead and chromium were designated as hazardous wastes in the National Hazardous Waste List.

Waste battery disposal method:

There are roughly three ways to dispose of waste batteries in the world: solidification and deep burial, storage in waste mines, and utilization.

1. Solidify and bury deep and store in abandoned mines.

For example, a factory in France extracts nickel and cadmium from it, which is then used to make steel, and cadmium is reused to produce batteries. The rest of the waste batteries are generally sent to specialized toxic and hazardous landfills, but this is not only too expensive but also wasteful, because there are still many useful substances that can be used as raw materials.

2 **Utilization.

1) Heat treatment (2) "Wet treatment" (3) Vacuum heat treatment method.

1. The battery mainly contains heavy metal elements such as iron, zinc, manganese, etc., in addition to a trace amount of mercury, which is a toxic substance;

2. The volatilization temperature of mercury is low, which is a highly toxic heavy metal, and the mercury released into the air has a great impact on the health of the operator;

3. After the mercury in the waste battery spills out and fights, if it enters the human brain cell, the human nervous system will be seriously damaged;

4. Cadmium can damage people's liver and kidneys, and the bones of severe ones are deformed;

5. Waste batteries also contain acid and heavy metal lead, which can cause soil and water pollution if leaked into nature, and eventually cause harm to people.

Legal Analysis: Littering batteries is not illegal. Waste batteries have latent and long-term hazards, a small alkaline button battery, in which the chemicals seep into the water, will pollute the water body, an ordinary carbon battery can pollute the land, so that it does not grow stupid tung dust.

Waste batteries can not be littered, but they should be accumulated for **, and rare metals such as zinc can also be extracted by using them. In this way, energy is saved and the environment is protected.

Legal basis: Article 66 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste The State shall establish an extended producer responsibility system for electrical and electronic products, lead-acid batteries, vehicle power batteries and other products.

Manufacturers of electrical and electronics, lead-acid batteries, vehicle power batteries and other products shall, in accordance with the regulations, establish a waste product system that matches the sales volume of the products by means of self-construction or entrustment, and disclose it to the public to achieve effective production and utilization.

The state encourages product producers to carry out ecological design and zen programs to promote the utilization of resources.

The harm of littering is considerable: Waste batteries are a big killer that endangers our living environment! A small button battery can pollute 600 cubic meters of water, which is equivalent to the amount of water a person drinks in a lifetime; A No. 1 battery rotting in the ground can make one square meter of land lose its use value and cause permanent pollution.

In the most threatening to the natural environment of several substances, the battery contains mercury, lead, cadmium and other kinds, mercury has a strong toxicity, the central nervous system of the human body is very destructive, the Minamata disease that occurred in Japan in the fifties of the last century is caused by mercury pollution; Lead can cause nervous disorders, nephritis, etc.; Cadmium is very easy to cause chronic poisoning in the human body, and the main diseases are emphysema, osteomalacia, and anemia, which is likely to paralyze the human body; Lead is the most difficult to excrete after entering the human body, and it interferes with kidney function and reproductive function. If waste batteries are mixed into domestic garbage and landfilled, over time, the heavy metals may pollute groundwater and soil, and then enter fish and crops, destroy the living environment of human beings, and indirectly threaten human health. The use of batteries in our lives is increasing rapidly and has penetrated into every corner of our lives and work.

China is a major producer and consumer of batteries, with an annual output of 14 billion, accounting for 1 3 percent of the world's output. If there are about 100 million households in the country, each household uses 10 coins per year, and the consumption is already 3.6 billion. If you add group consumption, every year"emerge"Tens of billions of used batteries are not a problem.

If these batteries are not properly disposed of, they can directly or indirectly endanger people's health. The implementation and advocacy of waste battery sorting and collection activities have been recognized by more and more people, and have received more and more attention, support and participation.

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The danger of littering batteries is great, and the death %40

Batteries don't look that destructive, but you can't look at all the surface. Waste batteries contain a large amount of heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium, manganese, lead, etc. When the surface cortex of the waste battery is corroded in the sun and rain, the components in it will penetrate into the soil and groundwater, once people eat the crops produced by the polluted land or drink the polluted water, these toxic heavy metals will enter the human body, slowly deposited down, causing a great threat to human health!

It has been measured that a No. 1 battery rotting in the soil can make one square meter of land lose its use value; A single button battery can contaminate 600,000 litres of water, which is equivalent to the amount of water a person drinks in a lifetime. Nearly 5 billion people in the world to count each person to lose a battery every month, a year to accumulate 60 billion batteries, the destructive power to the earth can be said to be great, the consequences of its harm to human health are even more unimaginable, according to statistics, only Beijing every year due to waste batteries and mercury into the natural environment has reached tons, this number can not help but headaches.

The harm of batteries is very great.

YES heavy metal pollutants are the most worth mentioning, this heavy metal, the harm to human beings, is indeed not shallow, for a long time, China in the production of dry batteries, to add a toxic substance - mercury or mercury compounds, China's alkaline dry battery mercury content reached 1-5%, neutral dry battery for, the national annual mercury used for the production of dry batteries has obvious neurotoxicity, in addition to the endocrine system, immune system and so on also has adverse effects, in 1953, The Minamata disease incident that shocked the world on the Japanese island of Kyushu has sounded the alarm bell for mankind about mercury pollution.

Heavy metal pollution threatens human health, if human beings ignore the control of heavy metal pollution, they will eventually swallow the bitter fruit of self-brewing, therefore, it is increasingly important to strengthen the use of waste batteries.

According to relevant information, batteries contain a large number of heavy metals, such as zinc, lead, cadmium, mercury, manganese, etc. According to expert tests, a single button battery can pollute 600 cubic meters of water.

A No. 1 battery rots in the ground, which can make one square meter of land lose its use value. Look at it, the harm of messing with a battery is so great! If the waste battery is mixed with domestic garbage, after the battery decays, the dissolution of heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium, lead, nickel and so on will pollute the groundwater and soil, and then penetrate into the fish and crops, destroying the living environment of human beings and threatening human health.

If people are poisoned by mercury, they will suffer from central nervous system diseases, and the mortality rate is as high as 40%; Cadmium in used batteries is classified as a carcinogen. This is not alarmist!

It can lead to a dime of land, and even we will die if we eat something that has been contaminated with batteries.

One coin cell battery can pollute 600,000 liters of water, which is equivalent to the amount of water a person drinks in a lifetime. A section of the No. 1 point pond rots in the soil, which can make one square meter of land lose the value of use, so it is not too much to say that a section of waste batteries is a "pollution bomb".