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Used batteries are special waste, toxic and dangerous, to be recycled.
The Department of Environment reports to provide citizens with free tank batteries, the township has four points this waste collection as usual in our homes.
Containers to deposit used batteries that generated are located in:
Catholic Kings Avenue, opposite the Health Centre.
Levante Avenue, opposite the IES Archbishop Lozano.
Canovas del Castillo Street, opposite the Garden Gazebo.
Canovas del Castillo Street, beside No 110.
Since its installation in 2009, have been collected 2363.2 kilos, distributed as shown in the following table:
Type of batteries collected
EWC
Year 2009
(Kg / year)
(Kg / year)
(Kg / year)
(Kg/1er semester)
Alkaline
160,604
565
726
556
470
Mercury Oxide
160,603
1.5
10.95
15.75
Nickel / Cadmium
160,602
10
Used batteries are special waste, toxic and dangerous as some kinds of batteries contain chemicals like zinc, cadmium, lead, mercury, etc., That in the case of being prepared badly once exhausted, could adversely affect the environment, including living beings.
One of the most dangerous is mercury, a highly toxic heavy metal.
A single button battery can pollute up to 600,000 liters of water and an alkaline battery can pollute up to 175,000 liters of water.
Also if you join the food chain has a cumulative effect to living organisms.
With the recycling of these wastes also achieved several environmental benefits and significant cost savings to recover metals such as mercury, silver, cadmium, etc..
For example, 1,500 Kg of button batteries recover 100 kg of mercury.
Therefore, it calls on all citizens of Jumilla, that esmeren spirit of civic participation and deposit their used batteries in containers arranged in the marquees, that this waste can be managed and treated specifically .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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