Buscando anteponerse al Decreto Supremo de la Ley de Reciclaje y Responsabilidad Extendida del Productor (REP Law), que fijará metas de recolección y valorización para las baterías fuera de uso (BFU), nuestro país puso en marcha un inédito plan piloto para recuperar estos residuos peligrosos, considerados así por las sustancias tóxicas que reposan en su interior, como el ácido sulfúrico y el plomo.
More than 45 thousand battery units were collected in just 12 months by implementing this model plan. An important management in a context where there has been an exponential growth for importing vehicles, especially in recent years, and has increased this type of waste significantly generating an important number of disused BFU’s across Chile.
It is important to remember that the EPR Law considers end-of-life batteries as a priority product, therefore automotive battery importers should be prepared to organize and finance, the collection, recycling and/or recovery of BFU’s throughout the country, given that despite their toxicity, the main components of a battery can be recycled to allow the manufacturing of new batteries: in fact, 97% of the lead in new products is completely recycled!
En Hidronor respaldamos este tipo de iniciativas y seguimos trabajando para aportar a la circular economy mediante la valorización de residuos y ayudar a las empresas a cumplir con las normativas impuestas por la Ley Rep, al mismo tiempo que cuidamos el medio ambiente y educamos sobre el reciclaje y la reutilización de los desechos.
“Our company has a strong commitment to recovery and recycling. We are currently evaluating different alternatives to generate value from industrial waste facing the challenges posed by the circular economy and the new regulations on the matter, and end-of-life batteries are part of this strategy”, commented Juan Andrés Salamanca, manager of Sales and Marketing of the company.
Source: CodexVerde
