This is a drop of poison. So small and so toxic.
Batteries and accumulators from various electronic devices are classified as hazardous wastes of the first class. Their metal shell is vulnerable, and the contents are dangerous, and for several months, mercury, manganese, nickel and zinc fall into the soil, infecting it together with groundwater.
One AA battery infects with metal heavy a land area of 20 sq. m. The most dangerous substance - mercury - spreads through soil to ground and artesian water, as well as plants and animals that eat them. Including in the person.
We collect batteries if we see them on the ground and do not throw them into our garbage.
And what do we do with them in Ukraine?
We keep them!
And if we do not want to keep, we carry them to the points of acceptance in the store, where they are kept by activists, who organize these points.
The only plant in Ukraine with a license and industrial facilities for processing waste "Argentum" in Lviv several years ago ceased its activity on the disposal of batteries.
The reasons for this are unknown, because the contact numbers of the enterprise do not meet, the battery raw materials are not accepted. Was there ever a license, or is it a legend to increase effective awareness?
No matter how things are, each battery, which is kept at home, have the shelf life 10 years, before the decomposition begins.
And during this time our Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources will find "sponsors" for the construction of a plant for processing batteries and accumulators.
How is this recycling process working in your area? I'll wait for your answers)
Take care of the Earth!
Ksu'
For the Benefits of all Living Beings!