Built to last for decades and equipped with a reinforced floor capable of carrying 30 tonnes, a standard 20ft or 40ft shipping container or storage container is the ideal solution whenever you need to store potentially hazardous batteries, such as those containing lithium.
Driven by this and by a strong environmental concern, mandatory reverse logistics systems for batteries are being implemented in Brazil. Batteries contain various chemicals that are harmful to people such as nickel, lead, cadmium, zinc and mercury.
In Brazil the new 2000 regulations have prompted society to discuss the future of spent batteries. Worldwide, different battery collection systems and recycling processes have been applied in the last 10 years.
This section shows Batteries''s exports and imports data at subnational level for Brazil. Click any date in the line plot, any subnational region in the geomap, or any destination or origin country to explore the exports or imports behavior of Batteries over time.
In this article, we will provide an overview of the reverse logistic process for batteries adopted in Brazil. The correct disposal of batteries is still inefficient in Brazil when compared to the amount manufactured annually.
Brazil-based Energy Source is betting on two new business models to boost its revenue in 2021: storage services with reused batteries and the recycling of batteries that have already completed their second life cycles, including the recovery of metals such as cobalt.
Energy Source, a Brazilian battery specialist, is currently providing energy storage services with reused and recycled batteries. Battery recycling and related metals recovery are conducted separately, without the burning of materials. From pv magazine Brazil
Up until this year, Energy Source had mainly been selling its products through a partnership with Brazil's largest PV product distributor, Aldo Solar, which also sells and distributes reused batteries.
It is up to GM&C, a logistics company hired by the legal manufacturers and importers of batteries, to transport these products. Suzaquim Indústria Química, is the company responsible for receiving all used batteries that are collected in Brazil and are located in the state of São Paulo.
The correct disposal of batteries is still inefficient in Brazil when compared to the amount manufactured annually. There is a lack of specific collection points for the product in some regions across Brazil.
Currently there are around 1.4 billion batteries sold in Brazil each year, a sum that could be even higher considering that 33% of the batteries sold in the country are smuggled into Brazil illegally or not certified, according to INMETRO, the National Institute of Metrology, Standardisation and Industrial Quality.
Although the number stated above makes a strong case for the lack of battery recycling in Brazil, it is necessary to say that lead-acid batteries - those used in cars - follow a different trend: according to PRAC, the Shared Environmental Responsibility Program, around 80% of all lead-acid batteries are recycled in Brazil.
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