Disordered battery recycling faces four major challenges

my country is the world's largest battery processor and exporter, but the waste battery recycling system is extremely incomplete. Recently, the reporter of 'Economic Information Daily' learned from the seminar on the management status and countermeasures of waste battery recycling in my country organized by the Environmental and Economic Policy Research Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the International Environmental Protection Organization Natural Resources Protection Association. The number of waste batteries that sprout in my country exceeds 2.6 million each year. Tons, but the rate of formal recycling is less than 30%. The waste battery recycling industry is in a disordered state. Nearly 80% of waste batteries still flow into the illegal recycling and settlement links through individual vendors. A large number of waste batteries are dismantled and disposed of at will, and the emerging environmental problems are becoming more and more serious. The formal recycling rate of waste batteries is less than 30%. Over the past 10 years, my country’s battery industry has shown a rapid upward trend and is the world’s largest battery processing and exporting country. According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the output of batteries in 2012 reached 174.863 million KVAh, an increase from 2011. 27%. The research report 'my country’s Battery Recycling Management Status and Countermeasures' jointly published by the Environmental and Economic Policy Research Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Natural Resources Conservation Association shows that my country is also a big consumer of batteries, and batteries are widely used in transportation, communications, electric power, railways and other industries. Among them, automobile starter batteries, power lithium batteries for electric bicycles, and backup power sources account for about 90% of total consumption. The number of waste batteries is also amazing, with more than 2.6 million tons of waste batteries being generated every year. The 'Comprehensive Prevention Method for Heavy Metal Pollution in the Battery Industry (Draft for Comment)' issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in 2010 shows that currently, the organized recycling rate of waste batteries in developed countries such as Europe, the United States, and Japan has exceeded 90%, while organized recycling in my country The rate is less than 30%. At present, my country does not have a national and regional recycling network built by battery processors or recycled lead manufacturers. Cao Guoqing, deputy secretary-general of the my country Battery Industry Association, said that individual channels account for 50%-60% of the recycling volume of used lead-acid batteries, and the flow of waste batteries to non-standard recycled lead companies is one of the root causes of lead pollution. There is serious battery acid dumping in the recycling process. Some recycled lead companies do not accept acid-containing waste batteries. The flow of waste acid is unknown, and there is a high risk of lead pollution and acid pollution. At present, the sales volume of automobile batteries is calculated at 50 million KVAh, of which 30 million KVAh is rich liquid, containing about 150,000 tons of lead-containing dilute sulfuric acid, and about 42,000 tons of sulfuric acid; in recent years, the dumping volume of lead-containing waste acid has increased year after year. The total amount of acid poured was 99,500 tons, which reached 261,400 tons in 2012. It is understood that, on the one hand, my country's waste battery recycling industry is generally in a state of disorder, waste batteries flow to non-standard recycled lead companies, and on the other hand, companies with formal recycling qualifications are not full. It is estimated with reference to relevant materials and professional experience that the annual initiation of waste batteries in Beijing is about 120,000 to 150,000 tons per year, and it is conservatively estimated that it is not less than 100,000 tons. However, Eco Island, the only company with recycling qualifications in Beijing, only recycled 7,000 tons of waste batteries last year, with an organized recycling rate of less than 10%. Shanxi Jitianli Technology Co., Ltd. of Yangmei Group of Shanxi Province has built a 100,000-ton domestic first closed-cycle storage battery clean processing industrial chain, but only 15,000 tons have been received so far. At present, Shanghai's annual battery generation is conservatively estimated to be 85,000 to 95,000 tons, while only 7,000 tons of hazardous waste are transferred through formal channels each year. Waste battery recycling management faces four major challenges. Although waste battery is one of the 49 hazardous wastes in the 'National Hazardous Waste ListRelated supporting policies, measures and supervision, there are phenomena of operation and disorderly competition. Said Yang Xiaoming, a senior engineer at the Environmental and Economic Policy Research Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection. Yang Xiaoming and other experts believe that, overall, there are four major challenges in domestic battery recycling management. First, a large number of illegal entities exist in the market, and qualification recovery entities lack the advantages of price competition. Data show that in 2009, the output of secondary lead was about 1.23 million tons, and there were 200-300 secondary lead companies, and the average scale of the company was only 0.67-0.4500 tons/year. Due to the lack of competitiveness of the recycling prices of qualified recycling companies, the company and battery consumers are not motivated to participate, and the amount of waste batteries recycled by qualified recycling companies is insufficient, which also makes it difficult to reduce the cost of the current model.