lead battery recycling News
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Backing for action to end ‘informal and inappropriate’ battery recycling
ILA director Dr Steve Binks, the co-ordinator of the lead battery industry’s material stewardship program*, has backed recommendations in the World Economic Forum’s Creating an Environmentally Conscious Life Cycle for Lead Batteries report. Commenting on its publication he said: “This report highlights the importance of safe and environmentally responsible management of ...
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Report: Economic Contribution of the U.S. Lead Battery Industry
A study released today reveals that the U.S. lead battery industry enables more than 95,000 jobs for American workers and contributed more than $28 billion in total economic output to the national economy in 2016. This release comes on the heels of President Donald J. Trump's State of the Union address, where he restated his commitment to bolstering U.S. manufacturing and infrastructure, of which ...
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Standards for Spent Lead Acid Battery Recycling
ASTM International will hold an organizational meeting on Dec. 3 to discuss the potential for developing standards for spent lead acid battery recycling. The meeting will be held in Suite 201, 1274 First Street, NE, Washington, D.C., from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. To register for the meeting go here. The unsafe recycling and disposal of spent lead acid batteries, including those found in ...
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20th International Congress for Battery Recycling ICBR 2015
The next top quality congress in battery recycling ICBR 2015 organized by ICM AG will take place from September 23 - 25, 2015 at the Hotel Fairmont Le Montreux Palace in beautiful Montreux, Switzerland. ICBR is the event, which is worldwide recognized as the top conference in battery recycling technologies and marketing, where scientists, engineers, producers and recyclers meet to share their ...
By ICM AG
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Sunlight Group Awards
SUNLIGHT Group, member of the Olympia Group, owned by Panos Germanos, was nominated with two more awards: HR award of the Best Change Management Strategy – Initiative. This distinction rewards the program of change in corporate culture by applying a High Involvement Organization model as part of the company’s strategy. The implementation of this program has shown excellent results, ...
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Call for papers for the 15th International Congress for Battery Recycling (ICBR10)
The 15th International Congress for Battery Recycling organised by ICM AG will be held from September 15 – 17, 2010 in the Hotel Conrad in charming Brussels, Belgium. Over 150 delegates from industry, authorities and academia will discuss and present the following topics: Update of the Battery Directive Implementation Global update of battery collection and recycling legislation REACH and ...
By ICM AG
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International Partnership Releases Report Documenting the Hazards of Exporting Used Car Batteries to Mexico
Exports of hazardous lead batteries to Mexico from the U.S. are growing significantly, leading to higher exposures and subsequent public health impacts, according to a new report by two environmental organizations. Prepared by Occupational Knowledge International, a U.S.-based organization, and Mexico’s Fronteras Comunes, a Mexican-based organization, the study, ...
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Green Mission: Environmental initiative of Sunlight Recycling for the proper recycling of lead-acid batteries
Sunlight Recycling, member of Olympia Group, owned by Panos Germanos, presented on Tuesday December the 6th, the environmental initiative Green Mission, which has the ambition to boost public and enterprise awareness of the right way of recycling lead-acid batteries. Green Mission brings together institutions and numerous companies operating in the Greek as well as global market place and ...
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OK International Calls for Halt in Used Car Battery Exports To Mexico Until Environmental Standards Improve
U.S. companies, which ship millions of used lead batteries to Mexico each year, should stop these exports immediately because they are contributing to lead poisoning among workers and children living near recycling plants, Perry Gottesfeld, executive director of the nonprofit organization, Occupational Knowledge International (OK International), said today. ...
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Successful launch of STCs latest turnkey plant
STC's important project commissioned by the Nigerian company Green Recycling Industries Ltd. based in Agbara, Ogun State, has almost come to an end. The well-known Italian engineering and contracting company has implemented the design, construction and supply of a complete lead acid battery recycling plant composed of a breaking and separation area, lead paste super desulphurization. double ...
By STC srl
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Johnson Controls Announces Planned Investment in Its Automotive Battery Recycling Center in Cienega De Flores, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Johnson Controls, Inc. (NYSE: JCI) today announced plans to invest more than $70 million in its automotive battery recycling center in Cienega de Flores, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The investment will fund the replacement of the Cienega facility's existing rotary furnaces with larger, more efficient rotary furnaces as well as the addition of proven state-of-the-art environmental control technologies. ...
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U.S. EPA finds Exide Technologies a source of harmful lead emissions
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today notified Exide Technologies of federal violations at its Vernon, Calif. lead smelting facility. EPA’s investigation, prompted by community concerns as well as ongoing investigations by state and local agencies, found that Exide violated the Clean Air Act’s lead emissions standards on more than 30 occasions. EPA’s investigation of ...
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EPA Extends Comment Period for Addressing Contaminated Soil and Groundwater at Superfund Site in Puerto Rico
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced it extended the public comment period for its proposed cleanup plan to address lead-contaminated soil and groundwater at the Battery Recycling Company Superfund Site in Arecibo, Puerto Rico to October 16, 2023. The main property at the site was operated as a secondary lead smelter and battery recycling operation until 2014. Prior ...
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Energizer debuts recycled AA and AAA batteries
Billions of discarded household batteries make their way into landfills every year and now one of the nation's largest battery makers says it is putting some of them to good use. Suburban St. Louis-based Energizer Holdings on Tuesday introduced Energizer EcoAdvanced, described as the first disposable AA and AAA alkaline batteries made with recycled batteries. The recycled materials comprise ...
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EPA takes action on lead problems at Arecibo, Puerto Rico battery recycling facility
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reached an agreement with The Battery Recycling Company, Inc. in Arecibo, Puerto Rico requiring the company to prevent lead contamination from leaving the facility on the work clothes and vehicles of company employees and clean up an adjacent property. The Battery Recycling Company recycles used motor vehicle batteries and produces approximately ...
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Soil testing to begin again at NL industries-Taracorp superfund site in Granite City, Illinois (IL)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will begin another round of soil sampling on properties that may be contaminated with lead from the former NL Industries lead smelter and battery recycling plant at 16th Street and Cleveland Boulevard in Granite City. The NL Industries-Taracorp site is located approximately two miles east of St. Louis and operated as a secondary lead smelter and refining ...
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Oregon export company pays $17,000 for illegally exporting hazardous waste to Hong Kong
Jones International Groups, Inc., has agreed to pay $17,000 for failing to comply with requirements related to the export of universal waste (spent lead-acid batteries) to Hong Kong through the Port of Portland, according to a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. On September 7, 2009, Jones International Groups, located in Hillsboro, Oregon, arranged for the export of ...
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Lead and Cadmium Overexposure in Ohio Battery Recycling Facility
A battery recycling facility in Lancaster, Ohio has been cited for 14 serious safety and health violations by the U.S. Department of Labor’s OSHA. The company’s total projected fine is $59,400. Some of the serious violations included exposing workers to lead levels that were eight times the exposure limit, as well as cadmium levels that were more than twice the exposure limit. ...
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Recycling Lead from Used Batteries Increases Health Risks in Mexico
Increasing numbers of old batteries that Americans recycle are sent to Mexico, where the lead is removed and then re-sold or re-used, according to the New York Times. The recycling process for batteries has become more expensive and complex in the U.S. since the Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) instituted new regulations concerning lead pollution, so American companies are sending more ...
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20th International Congress for Battery Recycling ICBR 2015
Just a few short weeks away, from 23 to 25 September 2015, international representatives of the battery recycling industry will be coming together in Montreux for the ICBR, the “International Congress for Battery Recycling”. Leading experts from the worlds of business, science and politics will again be discussing the latest trends, challenges and market opportunities in numerous ...
By ICM AG
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