An investment in a battery recycling system in Romania is desirable, but at the moment, for such an investment to be profitable, the volume of recycled products needs to be large enough, he said on Tuesday, in a specialized video conference, Elena Gaspar, president of the National Battery Recycling System (SNRB).
“In the context in which the market for everything that means electric vehicles, from scooters to cars, has exploded in the context in which the European Union wants to have around 30 million electric cars on the streets by 2030, we have already started this year to face the situation where these batteries have to be recycled. The batteries of electric vehicles are extremely efficient, but at the same time extremely dangerous. The bigger the battery – the bigger the bomb. In this sense, they fall into the category of very hazardous waste. It takes four, four and a half years from our calculations and estimates, and the investment for such a project could be around € 9 million. would the installation,” Gaspar mentioned, according to Agerpres.
The head of SNRB pointed out that recycling means investment and estimated that a facility designed to recycle batteries could reach 9 million euros.
“Batteries don’t even get into the recycling chain by 1%, even if they’re small and poisonous. Batteries are kind of the alchemists’ stuff. You can do a good thing with them if you can recycle and recover them, or just as well, you can make a lethal potion that passes through the water layer and somehow it still reaches us. There are some studies that associate the increase of ADHD cases with the amount of mercury in the water … At the battery level, things are a little different. It is hard to convince people that think that to throw away the PET recipients separately is a hard thing to do. The best way to do it is to pile them all up, because the garbage truck that comes in takes them all in. That’s the explanation we have. We hear it all the time when we go to our educational campaigns in schools. Education is an extremely important element. In recent years, in the area of batteries, almost all existing organizations in the market have made considerable efforts on the education side and on the collection side. We are not where we should be. In the case of batteries, it is mandatory to collect 45% of the average quantities placed on the market in three years. It is difficult in the context in which the life of a battery brought on a ship from China is four and a half years,” said Elena Gaspar.
