What kind of garbage is used battery and what harm?

Last Update Time: 2021-06-26 10:53:01

What kind of garbage is used battery?

Battery waste is hazardous waste.

Harmful garbage contains heavy metals that are harmful to human health, toxic substances, or wastes that cause actual or potential harm to the environment. Including batteries, fluorescent tubes, light bulbs, mercury thermometers, paint buckets, some home appliances, expired drugs, expired cosmetics, etc. These wastes are generally collected or disposed of separately.

Battery pollution is mainly the chemical substances inside the battery: heavy metals mercury, lead, cadmium, etc.


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The hazards of waste batteries

In real life, the pollution of waste batteries has become a very serious problem, ordinary dry batteries we use daily. They all contain various metal substances such as mercury, manganese, cadmium, lead, zinc and nickel. After the waste battery is abandoned, the battery's casing will slowly corrode, and the heavy metal substances in it will gradually penetrate into the water body and soil, causing pollution. If people eat crops produced from contaminated land or drink contaminated water, these toxic heavy metals will enter the body and slowly deposit down, posing a great threat to human health! According to the measurement, a battery of No. 1 is rotten in the soil, which can make a square meter of land useless; a button battery can pollute 600,000 liters of water, which is equivalent to the amount of water a person can drink for life. The pollution caused by used batteries is amazing. The following highlights the dangers of several metals contained in batteries to humans.

  1. Manganese: Excessive accumulation of manganese in the body causes neurological dysfunction, which is manifested as comprehensive dysfunction early. Heavier people have heavy legs, monotonous language, dull expressions, indifferent emotions, often accompanied by mental symptoms.

  2. Zinc: Zinc salts can precipitate proteins and stimulate the skin and mucous membranes. When the concentration in water exceeds 10-50 mS / L, there is a risk of carcinogenesis, which may cause chemical pneumonia.

3. Lead: Lead mainly acts on the nervous system, blood circulation system, digestive system and liver, kidney and other organs to inhibit hemoglobin anabolic processes, and it can also directly affect mature red blood cells. Chronic lead poisoning can cause mental retardation in children.

4. Nickel: Nickel powder dissolves in the blood and participates in circulation in the body. It is highly toxic, can damage the central nervous system, cause blood vessel mutations, and cause cancer in severe cases.

5. Cadmium: cadmium enters the human body and damages the liver and kidneys of the human body. It can also cause loose bones and severe bone deformation.

6. Mercury: It is the most worth mentioning among these heavy metal pollutants. This kind of heavy metal is really harmful to human beings. For a long time, when China produced dry batteries, it was necessary to add a toxic substance-mercury or mercury compounds. The content of mercury in alkaline dry batteries in China reaches 1-5%, and that in neutral dry batteries is 0.025%. The mercury used in the production of dry batteries throughout the country has obvious neurotoxicity, and it also has adverse effects on the endocrine system and immune system. In 1953, the Minamata disease incident that shocked the world on Kyushu Island in Japan sounded the alarm for mercury pollution.

The biggest characteristic of the pollution of these metals is that they cannot be degraded in nature, and only through purification can the pollution be eliminated. Heavy metal pollution threatens human health. If humans ignore the control of heavy metal pollution, they will eventually swallow the bitter fruit of self-brewing. Therefore, it is more important to strengthen the recycling of waste batteries.

 

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