How Does Professional Lead-Acid Battery Recycling Help Reduce Environmental Pollution?

Lead-acid batteries are found in vehicles, backup power supplies, and industrial equipment. If disposed of improperly, these batteries can severely pollute the environment. One of the key ways to avoid these negative impacts is to recycle lead-acid batteries. BXKM is an enterprise specializing in battery recycling that uses the latest technology in lead-acid battery recycling to reduce the negative impact on the environment. Learning about the process of lead-acid battery recycling helps understand how professional recycling helps avoid pollution, protecting the environment and public health.

Staying Professional Avoids Lead Leakage, Preventing Soil and Water Pollution

There are many benefits of professional lead-acid battery recycling, the most important being the prevention of lead leakage and, as a consequence, the pollution of soil and water. Lead is a hazardous heavy metal and a polluting lead-acid battery discarded at a landfill is likely to get lead toxic

The primary lead derivate remains contained and reused in new batteries or other products, which ensures lead remains contained and prevents its release to the environment. This handling of lead is critical in preventing long-term lead-acid battery waste contamination of soil and water. 

Takes Appropriate Steps to Decontaminate Electrolytes to Avoid Further Chemical Pollution 

The electrolyte in lead-acid batteries consists of a mixture of water and sulfuric acid. This mixture is extremely toxic, and if left untreated, will cause irreparable chemical pollution and damage. Unchecked electrolytes will destroy vegetation, acidify soil, and contaminate water bodies, thus unbalancing and disrupting local ecosystems. Electrolytes in lead-acid battery recycling are professionally and specially treated, that is also BXKM passes safe chemicals to neutralize the acidic electrolyte and to the point where it will be safe for water to be discharged or reused, the water is to be purified and the corrosive electrolyte is to be neutralized. Solid byproducts will be processed for the harmful substances removal and safe disposal. Chemical pollution will acid damage to the land and water in these ecosystems is protected, thus proper treatment during electrolyte in lead-acid battery recycling is critical. 

Prevention of Landfill Pressure and The Pollution That Comes With It

Professional lead-acid battery recycling is and should be a priority to help reduce landfill pressure, as well as the pollution that comes along with it.

Lead-acid batteries take up a lot of space in landfills, are bulky, do not degrade, and take a very long time to decompose. Over time, landfills release leachate, a toxic liquid consisting of waste, and methane, a dangerous greenhouse gas, and these gases are very harmful pollutants to our air and water. Reducing the number of lead-acid batteries that are landfilled decreases methane emissions as well as leachate. BXKM lead-acid battery recycling cuts down the number of batteries sent to landfills annually, lessening the strain on landfills. The environmental footprint of battery disposal is lessened by the space that is saved and the waste that is avoided by the disposal of non-degradable batteries.

Reduces the Need to Extract New Resources, Transform Over, and Impact to the Environment Associated with New Resource Procurement​  

Lead-acid battery recycling lowers the need to extract new resources. New lead is created by mining lead ore which causes deforestation, and soil erosion while also emitting toxic gases such as sulfur dioxide. New components and cases for batteries are also manufactured by consuming fossil fuels and producing waste. More than 95% of used batteries lead, cases and other materials are recycled and reused. Their use is replaced with new resources and appropriate mining.

Once BXKM cleans and processes the recovered materials, they meet the specifications for shipping to the battery makers who manufacture new lead-acid batteries. This reuse cuts the need for the mining and manufacturing of raw materials, which decreases the pollution that comes from mining and industrial manufacturing, including air and wastewater. ​

Works Within the Environmental Protection Guidelines for Effective Pollution Control ​  

Controlled professional grade lead-acid battery recycling works within more strict environmental protection guidelines and ensures control of all the pollution that such processes could release into the environment. Conversely, bad recycling operations rely on primitive techniques. They include the completely unregulated and informal recycling of batteries and techniques like open burning of battery housings. These primitive techniques not only worsen useless battery waste pollution, but they also release dangerous lead and battery acid fumes that cause serious health risks to workers. Compared to these operations, professional regulated recycling like BXKM recycling lead-acid batteries fully complies with environmental protection guidelines that include closed loops to control and capture process gases. All byproducts that could cause waste pollution are completely removed. This ensures that lead-acid battery recycling is poilution neutral and that it waste managed the battery waste and helped the environment.