Presently, batteries are recycled all around the world as they contain the chemicals which obviously pollute the environment. In the USA, battery recycling has reached the success as more than 97 percent of batteries recycling. To prevent hazardous materials of battery from landfills is the purpose of batteries recycling so that batteries should be disposed of properly for a good environment of living things. Generally, the recycling process is quite simple. 70 percent of the battery can be really reused. Here are the methods of how to recycle battery as follows:
- Batteries must be sorted into chemistries for starting the recycling because it can be profitable as a steady stream of batteries are available at no charge by sorting them.
- The combustible material must be removed by a gas-fired thermal oxidizer. Those materials are plastics and insulation as the examples. As the result, the plant’s scrubber can get rid of the polluting particles from burning process. Clean and naked cells are left valuably.
- Completing cadmium process at high temperatures as it is related with light and vaporizes. However, some recyclers do not divide the metals into site. Mostly, they pour the liquid metals on what the industry refers to directly.
- Liquid nitrogen will be used to freeze lithium-based in batteries before the process of shredding, crushing and lithium removal. Moreover, other battery components must be done the same.
- Of course! It takes 6 to 10 times for more energy to reclaim metals from batteries which are recycled because battery recycling is energy-intensive.
