Kenya ban on lead battery scrap export of raw materials
Kenya ban on lead battery scrap export of raw materials
Willing to June 8 the government announced(laptop battery) a ban on exports to the Asian region of lead battery waste materials.
A week ago the battery Kenya Association of Manufacturers are willing to apply to take measures to protect their businesses from the battery manufacturers from Asian countries to unfair competition, the Government is willing to accept the application of the association made the decision.
The association said if the Government does not take measures, g5266,hd438,kd186 battery manufacturers in Kenya are due to battery from China, imports of cheap raw materials and the shortage of domestic battery and turn off the impact. The association claims to China and Indonesia, led by some Asian countries imported a large number of used batteries from Kenya’s total abolition of lead, and as a cheap raw materials are willing to export to the battery, the battery manufacturing industry in Kenya resulted in a tremendous impact, So many battery manufacturers are facing the danger of collapse. The association called on the Government is willing to raise the export tariffs of lead waste in order to protect its own battery manufacturing industry.
In addition, the Secretary of Geology and Mineral Resources will also require the Inland Revenue Department is willing to investigate the case and stop the export of scrap lead. In his letter to the Inland Revenue Department, said “more and more from China, Indonesia and the Malay of the battery manufacturers illegal import of lead waste from Kenya and cheap lead batteries sold to the willing, which is caused by its own battery manufacturers tremendous damage. ”
At the same time, Ken said the National Environment Authority, in accordance with “the Kenyan Environmental Management and Coordination Act (1999)” in “the law prohibits, without the risk of license departments waste imports and exports from Kenya,” provisions, the Government should be willing to to prohibit the export of scrap lead.
Experts: lead-acid batteries(td347,u4873,d5318) for automobile exhaust pollution than the much more serious
Electric bicycle to the green environmental protection, light weight, in line with the purchasing power of China’s working-class urban residents have been popular, but such a convenient means of transport in many cities has been blocked. The reason is actually used batteries for electric bikes blame.
According to environmental experts, not emissions from electric bicycle, but it is lead-acid batteries used in the pollution of the environment is much more serious than automobile exhaust. Lead-acid batteries by the lead, sulfuric acid and some other metal and plastic components, waste battery acid contains high levels of lead, not only a serious indiscriminate discharge of contaminated soil and water, on the air, damaging the ecological balance, but also lead to human metabolism, areas such as reproductive and neurological diseases, the body once the excessive lead content, will lead to mental decline, induced by malignant tumors of children, and even death.
Data show that the electric bicycle, the lead-acid batteries(338794-001,361742-001,371785-001) are consumables, brand batteries use 1 ~ 2 years to be replaced, and some non-brand-name batteries to be replaced for six months. Conservative calculation, the general use of lead-acid batteries in large cities over 200,000, and the rapid growth momentum. To this end, a number of provinces and cities clear that environmental protection departments, the market for electric bikes, where the use of lead-acid maintenance-free batteries, all from production through distribution unit, a unified cross-production deal with; Where to buy a new battery must pay Back to waste the battery, or not to sell a new battery.
It is learned that the majority of electric bike stores sell pipe regardless of recovery, the recovery of batteries that store, and some are not shipped back to manufacturers, but sold the collection of waste. Lead-acid batteries have been taken when the waste scavengers sell a lot of toxic dumping of acid being seriously polluted the environment. Electric Bicycle manufacturers and dealers are not interested in on the battery recycling them? Electric bicycle manufacturers, a person in charge frankly, discarded lead-acid y9943, fk890, gk479 battery manufacturers for the production or valuable, but the heavier the battery, back to business of dangerous goods in accordance with the charges, each of the price of electric vehicles do not recycling enterprises to increase the cost of the last hundred dollars. Who is law-abiding operators who suffer, it is the manufacturers and dealers are not interested in root causes.
The face of a worsening pollution problem in lead-acid batteries(vgp-bps9), they have suggested that radical measures must be taken vgp-bps10, vgp-bps13. Norms on the one hand, manufacturers, distributors of battery recycling, processing acts, on the other hand, the establishment of pollution in large cities Treatment Center. The only way to tackle pollution caused by lead-acid batteries, electric bicycles can be blocked from the fate.