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Battery manufacturers to take more environmental responsibility

Lao Wang buys a rechargeable battery with a label saying "nickle-chrome, to be returned for recycling". Three months later, instead of throwing it in a dustbin as he had done before, he returns it to a collection station set up by its manufacturer.


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Lao Wang buys a rechargeable battery with a label saying "nickle-chrome, to be returned for recycling". Three months later, instead of throwing it in a dustbin as he had done before, he returns it to a collection station set up by its manufacturer.

Luo Yi, an official from China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), described this imaginary scene Thursday, at a seminar about a new policy on used battery pollution, to elucidate his ideal model to collect used batteries.

China's battery manufacturers are required by the policy, to attach to their products labels which state what toxins they contain and how they should be returned, Luo said.

The policy also demands manufacturers set up collection networks based on their distribution networks.

Some battery producers, however, question the feasibility of the policy.

"To establish such a collection network means a rise in costs -wages, transportation and management. The additional cost will be shifted to the consumers if the manufacturers cannot lower their original costs," said Tang Shengwu, planning director of Desay Power Technology Co., ltd, one of China's largest battery manufacturers.

Tang said the best way to prevent used battery pollution is to produce clean batteries that do not contend any toxins. His company is researching such an ideal product.

Luo told Xinhua that however eager he is for this policy, it isjust SEPA's advisory document.




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