Spain waste battery recycling laws that promote the development of the country’s environmental protection department, and was approved by the Government in February this year, aimed at promoting the recycling of waste batteries and proper disposal. Act set a minimum target of scrap battery recycling: in 2011 the recovery rate of 25% in 2015 to 45%, recovery ranging from dry batteries, storage batteries, industrial batteries, all kinds of used batteries.
Decree, battery manufacturers, vendors have to bear the responsibility for recycling used batteries, consumers have the obligation will be collection points for used batteries handed. Battery manufacturers through the establishment of collection points to the way public finance to pay handling fees involved in recycling of waste hp pavilion dv2000 battery. In addition, the Act also prohibits merchants selling mercury or cadmium content above the standard battery, and provides that the relevant departments should adopt the most advanced technology for recycling used batteries for environmentally friendly processing.
The hazards of waste batteries mainly concentrated in a small amount of heavy metals contained therein, such as lead, mercury, cadmium. Battery through the long-term wear and corrosion, the internal heavy metals and acid-base and so on would leak out into the soil or water, and then through a variety of ways to enter the human food chain. Of these toxic substances enter the body is difficult to exclude a long-term savings, this would damage the nervous system, hematopoietic function and bone, and even carcinogenic.
It was reported that Spain’s annual consumption of about 400 million batteries, used hp pavilion dv5000 battery, but the recovery rate is only 18%.
