Battery Recycling
“End-of-life mobile battery harmless after treatment, the manufacturer should bear the unshirkable responsibility.” Zhao Xiaoliang Beijing lawyer sued Nokia, a request to provide high-performance low-power cell phone batteries and 190 yuan per block price Recycling used batteries, sound processing, and mobile phone handset specification explicitly marked case containing harmful substances. The case has been accepted, Haidian District, laptop battery rechargeable Beijing People’s Court, at present, the case is pending.
“Mobile Recycling duty conferred Who? Are manufacturers themselves Recycling吗? This country has provided for it?”
At present, our country, “Solid Waste Pollution Prevention Law” provides for producers on their production of solid waste pollution prevention and control in accordance with the law to assume duty.
“A piece of mobile phone battery will be recharged in less than 23 days, for a new cell phone does not know how to deal with old batteries!” In recent days, Beijing to build research firm’s lawyer Zhao Xiaoliang, pointing to his Nokia N73 mobile phone-based frustration.
By the end of December 2006, Zhao lawyer buy a Nokia N73 mobiledell inspiron b130 battery,dell inspiron e1405 battery phone type. In use, he found that this cell phone battery relatively short standby time, every 23 days will be an electric charge. Thus, Zhao lawyer also buy a new cell phone, while the original used mobile phone and used cell phone batteries how to deal with him has become a problem.
“Cell phone battery is a highly dangerous goods, no matter where as long as the deal has not been that high pollution sources.” Zhao at lawyer’s office, the reporter saw 67 old cell phone. Since I do not know how to deal with discarded cell phone batteries, Zhao lawyer himself unwittingly used the old cell phone has become a pile of Poly.
“I have spent more than 20 mobile phone, cell phone battery has at least dozens of block, how to deal with these batteries to haunt me.” Nokia Mobile Phone User Guide opened, under the battery information reads: according to local regulations deal with mobile phone. Please, where possible, the recovery of batteries. Battery life will not be allowed as a garbage disposal.
Mobile Phone Recycling of scrap duty conferred Who? Are manufacturers themselves Recycling吗? Our country laws and regulations have provided for it?
Zhao lawyer read the information found there is no specific operational domestic law. At present, China Mobile Phone Battery Recycling applicable law can only “Solid Waste Pollution Prevention Law,” Although this method provides producers on their production of solid waste pollution prevention and control in accordance with the law to assume responsibility, but in the end how to bear the duty and in what are not explicitly assumed.
At present, in many countries, mobile phone manufacturers are recycling must dell kd186 battery bear the responsibility. A lot of countries have also established a set of recovery system.
Zhao lawyer also found that Nokia’s product specification of poisonous and harmful substances marked only with the recommended standards, while not toxic, harmful substances composition, content, environmental protection use period and the possibility of recycling to the statement. Cell phone batteries and other electronic products have their own environmental protection period, if the excess of the number of years of environmental protection, one of the harmful substances harmful to human damage.
“Battery exports the EU, have to start from the 2008 Recycling, Recycling burden borne by the manufacturer. And my country but not vice versa, not because we are not country specific legal provisions, such as Nokia cell phone internationally renowned manufacturers can not comply with the it? “Zhao lawyer at mobile phone battery recycling question on a more real.
“According to ‘Who Who is responsible for the production of’ principle, enterprises should not assume full responsibility for Recycling?”
Zhao Xiaoliang think, Nokia should have their mobile phone battery recycling obligations and social responsibility, profit at the same time, it should undertake to eliminate, reduce their products, the harm caused by the consequences of
In the interview, the reporter found that the same lawyer and Zhao channels because of the lack of recycling of used cell phone battery will be put in at home without making a large number of people deal with, many people’s attitude was “too few collection points, far away from home, save the trouble.” Batteries have a small number of people will put more money into the general trash. Individual users of waste batteries will be sold together with the mobile phone recycling mobile phone street officers.
China Mobile 2005 United Motorola, Nokia and other international well-known mobile phone manufacturers to start the “green box environmental protection plan.” Put cell phone users waste, batteries to get the Office of Recycling principal place of business can be back to 10 calls. According to the person in charge of Events, 2005 Events start battery recovery less than 1% in 2006 Recycling waste quantity for the cell phone and accessories 60,000, in 2007 more than 10,000 to 260. With more than 300 million years the Ministry of abandoned cell phone compared to the enormous figure, and ultimately harmless handle and only a small part.
“The public’s enthusiasm for recycling used batteries low country advocate necessary, in accordance with the ‘who is who is responsible for the production of’ principle, enterprises should not assume full responsibility for Recycling?” Zhao consider lawyer, Nokia (China) Communication Technology Services Ltd. and Nokia Mobile Telecommunications Co., Ltd. as an R & D, production, sales as well as the used cell phone batteries can not shirk its responsibility.
In his view, in accordance with the “Solid Waste Pollution Prevention Law” and “Contract Law” the relevant provisions, Nokia should have their mobile phone battery recycling obligations and social responsibility. As a cell phone and cell phone battery producers accused, profit at the same time, it should assume the elimination of their products to reduce the harm caused by the consequences of society to assume corresponding responsibilities, that is, and consumers paid the signing of the “cell phone and battery recycling waste protocol “Recycling a unified sound after treatment.
“Who Who is responsible for production, recovery should be a clear duty”
Zhao lawyer hopes the lawsuit so that mobile phone battery recycling waste problem caused by government, manufacturers and society
Instituted since the first on the mobile phone battery recycling from the public interest litigation, Zhao Xiaoliang social awareness is also high up gradually. A lot of people expressed support, but others think he was just putting on a show.
In this regard, Zhao lawyer was more calm, “public interest litigation of this brand is not rely on one or two cases will be able to come up, sometimes not known what is wrong, or at least can contribute to waste battery recycling system more perfect.” Zhao lawyer hope that through this litigation so that waste battery recycling questions Government, producers and society.
“Recycling mobile phone production enterprises of action without any stress, because it does not do well there is no punishment of the laws and regulations. In the absence of the implementation details of the circumstances, whether the mobile phone production enterprises should be set aside to wait and attitude?” With these worries and questions, Zhao lawyer wrote to the Minister of Environmental Protection, called on the Government to actively promote mobile phone batteries and other electronic waste disposal of the relevant legislation. Environmental Protection Department of Pollution Control Department, Solid Waste Management Department is responsible for that person back, look forward to hearing the outcome of the court to promote the relevant legislation.