Over half lead pollution comes from lead battery recycling

Manually dismantling waste lead batteries, waste lead acid (containing corrosive liquid sulfuric acid), dumping arbitrarily, smelting technics and equipment lagging behind, lead paste, lead smelting not categorized and smelting... Recent national multi-sectoral survey results show that more than half of China’s The lead pollution comes from these backward lead-acid battery recycling companies.

"Lead-acid storage batteries go from recycling to dismantling to lead production. Every step is pollution!" Yesterday, Yang Chunming, vice president of the Lead and Zinc Branch of China Nonferrous Metals [0.24-0.41%] Industrial Association, told the "First Financial Daily". "A lot of lead-acid batteries have been illegally recovered."

According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 300 recycled lead companies (mainly engaged in the recovery of lead-acid batteries) in the country, of which half are unlicensed illegal operations, the input cost is as low as 50,000 to 100,000 yuan; more than 90% do not meet the national lead Zinc industry access conditions. According to state regulations, a formal lead battery recycling company needs to invest at least 200 million yuan.

Recycling of "regeneration" lead pollution Yang Chunming introduced that according to the "Notice of the Recycling Nonferrous Metal Industry Development Promotion Plan" issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Finance on January 24 this year, there are more than 300 recycled lead companies in the country, 70% of which are There is no evidence of illegal production and tax evasion; large-scale recyclable lead companies account for more than 90% of lead battery recycling companies.

"Because this part of the company is located in a more suburban area and has local protection, statistics and supervision of this part of the company are extremely difficult."

According to the draft of the “Recycled Lead Industry Admission Standards” of the relevant national authorities, the capacity of newly-built, rebuilt and expanded lead recycling companies should be greater than 50,000 tons per year. However, the current average production capacity of the company is only 4,000 tons, which means that most of the lead recycling enterprises are lower than National standard.

"So many illegal lead-acid storage battery companies exist, mainly because they have low costs and quick profits." Yang Chunming said that an unlicensed illegal recycling company, similar to dozens of small workshops, uses manual dismantling and simple melting pots. Lead-acid batteries are recycled, and the total cost of investment is less than 100,000.

Ma Yonggang, vice president of Jiangsu Chunxing Co., Ltd., the largest lead recycling company in China, introduced a standard non-polluting lead-acid battery recycling and recycling company with an investment of at least 200 million yuan, of which about 50 million are mechanical dismantling devices and about 60 million are smelting furnaces. Dust collection and water treatment devices are also 60 million yuan, plus land and plant construction.

Strict industry access In the United States, the output of the top five companies in the lead regeneration industry has reached 80% of the national output. The environmental protection requirements of the recycled lead industry are almost harsh, or else huge fines or closures will be imposed. Due to high industry concentration, it is easy to supervise industries that lead to high pollution, such as lead regeneration. “More than 300 companies engaged in the production of lead from renewables, and over 95% are non-state-owned enterprises, have a large number, small scale, high energy consumption, heavy pollution, low recycling rate, low mechanization and intensification, and the whole industry is small and chaotic. , scattered state.” Yang Chunming believes that China's lead recovery recycling production has accounted for a quarter of total lead production, is expected to have greater growth, strengthen industry supervision, strict industry access, can be beneficial to China's lead battery industry longterm development.

Yang Chunming suggested that the state can adopt differential taxation, appropriately reduce or exempt taxes for enterprises with better or no pollution control, and impose high taxes on the more polluting enterprises. "In foreign countries, such enterprises have government subsidies for pollution prevention, while domestic companies are faced with high taxes, but high taxes cannot be implemented in a large number of illegal production enterprises."

It is reported that the Nine ministries and commissions recently requested a thorough investigation of the entire lead-acid battery industry, and will announce the list of companies within a limited period of time. The rectification of lead battery enterprises has become the top priority for this year's environmental protection action in China. Yang Chunming revealed that at present, investigations in places like Jiangsu and Zhejiang have come to an end, and the survey is underway.

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