Small battery inside the “big treasure trove”
If improperly discarded used batteries mobile phones, directly into the soil and water pollution, a mobile phone battery in 60 tons of water may be polluted, that number shocking. See this information, how would you deal with the hands of the used cell phone batteries it?
In fact, old mobile phones and batteries contains valuable resources, recycling and reuse can bring significant economic value. In order to promote recycling of used mobile phones and batteries re-use, from the telecommunications operators to handset manufacturers and then to professional mobile phone, battery dismantling business, the entire mobile phone industry chain in action.
At present, the domestic carriers, represented by China Mobile has launched the “green box” of environmental programs in the country running the business hall of about 1,000, and handset manufacturers Motorola, Nokia, the 150 sales centers and long-term maintenance center set up a “green box” for collecting discarded cell phones and accessories. China Mobile in 2008 through the “green box” recycling of used environmental projects totaling 1.35 million mobile phones and accessories, 90% of mobile phone batteries.
Battery recyclers —
Cell phone batteries used in the cobalt and nickel
Professional battery recycling business Grammy successfully resolved a small used batteries of high-tech, economic of recovery.
“Is a treasure trove of used batteries, which contain large quantities of rare metals, rare metals extracted from the ore can replace even a resource of similar products.” Shenzhen Grammy’s technical standards and property manager SOURCES said so.
Metals in the cobalt, nickel, is also an important raw material production of high-performance batteries. Used batteries is rich in cobalt, nickel, but its refining technology is extremely complex, previously only a handful of countries such as Canada, to master. In 2003, Grammy and Tokyo University, China Central South University, captured in the refining of used batteries from cobalt, nickel, technical difficulties, and has become the only master of the sophisticated technology of the enterprise, successful resolution of a small used batteries high technology, the economy of recycling.
Currently, the Grammy is circular economy pilot units, but also the only country to waste batteries and battery recycling of waste as raw materials cobalt and nickel ultrafine powder scale enterprises. Recycling of used batteries Grammy categories are: a battery, zinc-manganese batteries mainly; secondary batteries, mainly nickel-cadmium batteries, nickel metal hydride batteries, lithium ion batteries. As the launching of the separate collection of used batteries unit Grammy in Shenzhen, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Zhongshan and other cities started in 12 categories of waste batteries recycling activities, the cumulative installation of 15,000 bins, collected nearly 3,000 tons of used batteries.
Five years, Grammy has gone through the pilot plant, small-scale construction of the factory to the recycling industrial park, has built an area of 420 acres, garden waste resources on R & D and production center, and two used batteries and electronic waste recycling use of plants, Co and Ni in the amount of waste disposal of waste, used batteries, electronic waste and other waste volume of 30,000 tons, 2,000 tons of the formation of ultrafine cobalt and nickel powder, nickel alloys and other high-tech products, recycling capacity.
As of October 2008, dealing with cobalt-nickel Grammy total of 50,000 tons of waste, recycling 4,000 tons of heavy metals, saving more than 300 million tons of raw ore to reduce the more than 21 cubic meters of water and 29 square kilometers of soil pollution, carbon dioxide emissions of more than 3100 tons, saving 72,000 tons of standard coal.
Mobile phone manufacturers —
A pre-paid mailing envelope
For used mobile phone batteries, Nokia introduced a measure: allowing consumers to return old mobile phone batteries for recycling. Companies to consumers an already pre-paid mailing envelopes, so that consumers return used batteries to completely free.
To recover the cell phone battery is represented in Nokia’s environmental philosophy, the product life cycle of the last major work is the product for proper waste disposal and recycling, the energy and materials to go back to the material cycle, to ensure that their impact on the environment Jian to a minimum.
In China, Nokia launched a mobile phone and accessories effective waste recycling activities. June 2002, Nokia mobile phones in China, opened the first “Green Recycling Campaign,” the prelude to more than 100 cities in the country authorized Nokia service center set up more than 200 recycling bins, recycling discarded consumer handsets and accessories. October 2003, Nokia and other phone companies jointly issued a “green initiatives mobile phone”, called for mobile phone manufacturers have voluntarily abandoned to assume responsibility for recycling mobile phones and accessories. December 2005, Nokia and China Mobile, Motorola co-sponsored “Green box environmental programs — recycle discarded cell phones and accessories joint action.” Sponsored the event in the country three more than 40 large and medium cities in the recovery of waste mobile phones and accessories action, covering nearly one thousand channel recovery of China Mobile’s business offices, hundreds of Nokia and Motorola’s sales center and maintenance center.
November 8, 2007, Nokia handsets and accessories waste recycling extends to the whole mobile phone industry chain, and the satellite network supplier Nokia Industrial Park, with the carry out the “Green box environmental programs satellite network.” According to satellite network, general manager of Jing Peng Industrial Park, introduced the Green box environmental programs the satellite network has been in 8 November 2007 in the satellite network from all the companies in the industrial park at the same time, each member of the Industrial Park will be satellite network Set recycling bins, promotional exhibition stands, by mail, posters, etc. to communicate with the entire staff has been in the satellite network of more than 50,000 employees in the industrial park has aroused great repercussion.
Currently, Nokia’s mobile phone manufacturing, 65% -80% of recyclable materials. Possible to ensure that the green phone, Nokia and work to extend the concept of environmental protection to the supplier network. Nokia (China) Investment Co., Ltd. introduced Xiaojie Yun, vice president, Nokia has a “Nokia supplier requirements” applicable to all direct and indirect suppliers. These requirements include environmental and business ethics requirements. Communication with suppliers on their training, and vendor contract review process, to Nokia’s network management vendors continue to maintain high environmental and social standards.
Communications operators —
Please put batteries into the “green box”
A country with 480 million users of telecom operators, ranging from 4 years ago started to recycle discarded mobile phone accessories as a corporate social responsibility, initiate recall in the country and has attracted a growing number of mobile phone production enterprises to participate, has total waste recycled more than 4 million mobile phone accessories, this is the China Mobile Communications Corporation for several years persistent implementation of the “Green box environmental programs.”
Once a user to transact business in told reporters: “cell phone for several department, threw a dozen pieces of batteries, either accidentally discovered the collection points, I will throw away the battery as before. “This recovery point is China Mobile’s” Green Box. ”
With mobile phone penetration rate of growth and the acceleration of cell phone replacement, in order to address the growing number of discarded cell phones and accessories, waste of resources and the enormous threat to the environment, in December 2005, China Mobile United Motorola, Nokia together to plan launched the “green box environmental programs —- waste recycling mobile phones and accessories joint action.”
In 2006, the “Green box environmental programs,” the participants from the initial three communication enterprise development to China Mobile, Motorola, Nokia, Bird, LG mobile phones, Lenovo Mobile, NEC Mobile, Panasonic, Amoi total of 9 companies, when by the end of a total of over 90,000 pieces of recyclable waste. To meet the May 17, 2007 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, the majority of China Mobile to launch mobile phone consumers in the country to actively participate in the “Green Box Environmental Protection Scheme” to support environmental protection, support of green Olympic Games, China Mobile to “hand in hand you and me, so hope from generation to generation “as the organizing theme of” Green box environmental programs -517 special operations “, branch in the Business Chamber launched a variety of incentives to encourage users to actively participate in environmental action, the country moves more than 60% of the county’s own business Office were involved in this action. China Mobile and its related communication in the energetic efforts of enterprises, as at the end of December 2007, a total of recycling discarded cell phones and more than 260 million pieces of accessories.
In line with the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, China Mobile also launched the Olympic Games special event, requiring the year to ensure the realization of “green box” covers 80% of the self-employed business offices, at the same time to “green box” sent to key government departments, to enhance the environmental awareness of people to provide more convenience and service. Company under the China Mobile Beijing during the Olympic Games features a significant increase in international customers, special green produced a multilingual posters; China Mobile Henan, where companies with a number of “resource-saving and environment-friendly” city-building needs, so that “green box” government departments and corporate clients into the unit, and let staff for recovery; Hubei carry out “I’m for the green box ‘to say a word’” campaign, launched by the salesperson to the user such as the green box recycling initiatives; Jilin, China Mobile, the company produced a special collapsible bags for environmental Shoulin this event; China Mobile Jiangxi, Xinjiang, the company also presented new business experience to the customer card or a small prepaid card; China Mobile Guizhou companies involved in environmental planning special events Olympic Games presented the key to customer deduction.
China Mobile and related communications in the energetic efforts of enterprises, “green box green” joint action to establish an open platform for waste recycling mobile phones and accessories, through this platform will allow more enterprises to participate in the communication to the communication of environmental protection cause. At the end of the interview, China Mobile made a responsible person in particular, hopes to “Economic Times” to remind consumers: If you have a used cell phone batteries, do not forget to throw the “green box.”
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