Lead acid batteries face new policy challenges
发布时间：2024-11-28 22:09:50 点击： 次
According to reports, the National Development and Reform Commission has put on the agenda a plan for lead-acid battery production enterprises to pay for the recycling fund of waste batteries. In order to improve the purchasing ability of recycled lead enterprises for waste batteries, battery production enterprises will pay for the recycling fund and provide subsidies to recycled lead enterprises.
According to relevant data, China needs to recycle over 2.6 million tons of waste lead-acid batteries annually. However, currently in China, there are no more than 5 enterprises with comprehensive hazardous waste management licenses and professional qualifications for recycling lead-acid batteries. The ability to recycle and process waste lead-acid batteries through formal channels is extremely scarce, and nearly 80% of waste lead-acid batteries flow into the hands of informal individual vendors and three no enterprises. In pursuit of maximizing profits, some individual vendors and three no enterprises have refurbished or dismantled waste lead-acid batteries, resulting in frequent incidents of heavy metal pollution. The market environment for the recycling and disposal of lead-acid batteries is worrying, and it is urgent to establish a complete and orderly lead-acid battery recycling and disposal system.
Lead acid batteries are widely used in production and daily life, and the government has a strong and clear attitude towards the recycling and disposal of lead-acid batteries. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Environment, and five national ministries have successively issued rectification measures to increase the prevention, control, and recycling of lead acid storage battery pollution. The proposal of the enterprise payment and recycling fund subsidy scheme further reflects the government's determination to rectify the recycling and disposal of lead-acid batteries.
However, once the enterprise payment and recycling fund scheme is implemented, the production cost of battery production enterprises will increase, and product prices will rise accordingly. Consumers have become the indirect burden of the payment and recycling fund, and it is still unknown whether consumers will pay for it. In addition, the problem of overcapacity in the battery industry, coupled with the influx of low-priced products from individual enterprises and three no enterprises in the market, will put legitimate lead-acid battery production enterprises in a passive position in market competition.
According to relevant data, China needs to recycle over 2.6 million tons of waste lead-acid batteries annually. However, currently in China, there are no more than 5 enterprises with comprehensive hazardous waste management licenses and professional qualifications for recycling lead-acid batteries. The ability to recycle and process waste lead-acid batteries through formal channels is extremely scarce, and nearly 80% of waste lead-acid batteries flow into the hands of informal individual vendors and three no enterprises. In pursuit of maximizing profits, some individual vendors and three no enterprises have refurbished or dismantled waste lead-acid batteries, resulting in frequent incidents of heavy metal pollution. The market environment for the recycling and disposal of lead-acid batteries is worrying, and it is urgent to establish a complete and orderly lead-acid battery recycling and disposal system.
Lead acid batteries are widely used in production and daily life, and the government has a strong and clear attitude towards the recycling and disposal of lead-acid batteries. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Environment, and five national ministries have successively issued rectification measures to increase the prevention, control, and recycling of lead acid storage battery pollution. The proposal of the enterprise payment and recycling fund subsidy scheme further reflects the government's determination to rectify the recycling and disposal of lead-acid batteries.
However, once the enterprise payment and recycling fund scheme is implemented, the production cost of battery production enterprises will increase, and product prices will rise accordingly. Consumers have become the indirect burden of the payment and recycling fund, and it is still unknown whether consumers will pay for it. In addition, the problem of overcapacity in the battery industry, coupled with the influx of low-priced products from individual enterprises and three no enterprises in the market, will put legitimate lead-acid battery production enterprises in a passive position in market competition.