) "We made a box for recycling waste batteries with wooden boards and put it in the garbage collection station in the neighborhood, and the residents in the neighborhood consciously separated waste batteries from other garbage and put them into the recycling box separately. But now the box is almost full, we do not know where to send the recycled batteries?" November 6, Urumqi citizen Mr. Feng called the hotline said, want to find a "home" for waste batteries through us.
November 8, the reporter came to Mr. Feng's residence in the South Lake Road, a district of the dump station, see the dump station next to the door of the wall nailed to a small rectangular yellow wooden box, affixed with a piece of paper, written "waste battery recycling box," as well as a number of promotional phrases.
A staff member at the dump told reporters that he had never seen anyone collecting used batteries, and that the landfill did not have a special place for batteries. "When the box is full, if you don't know where to send it, it can only be transported to the landfill with a piece of garbage."
The reporter visited some residential neighborhoods and schools found that many residential neighborhoods are not set up waste battery recycling boxes, or recycling boxes without specialized management, can not do waste battery professional recycling.
In the petrochemical family home, a grandfather surnamed Zheng told reporters: "We know that waste batteries are polluting, littering is not good, we have been saving, and now there is a big jar of batteries at home. But I don't know where to get." The reporter learned that Xinjiang University, Xinjiang Normal University, Xinjiang Agricultural University and other dormitory buildings, teaching buildings set up waste battery recycling boxes in colleges and universities, but also feel that waste battery recycling how to deal with is a major problem.
Wang Zhouquan, who used to be the head of Xinjiang University's Love Society, told reporters, "We used to recycle batteries to a battery factory over on Northwest Road, but then we heard that the battery factory had closed down, and we didn't receive any more."
The reporter also learned that many of the waste batteries recovered through formal channels, due to the landfill without professional waste battery processing equipment, has been piled up and can not be processed.
The relevant staff of the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau told reporters that at present there is no relatively good way to deal with waste batteries. Suggested that the public will have been recycled waste batteries properly stored, usually life in the battery can find a bag is not easy to leakage or decay, centralized bag storage, such as municipal hazardous waste disposal site is completed and put into operation and then safely landfill.