Battery Scrap Management

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Battery Scrap Management Indias Efforts
Towards Meeting Lead Demand-Supply Gap

• by
• Dr V Rajagopalan
• Joint Secretary,
• Ministry of Environment Forests
• Government of India

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Global Lead Mine Production
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Production of Lead in India
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Decline in Lead Production
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Role of Secondary Production in Rest of the World
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Role of Secondary Production in India
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Estimated and Actual Demand of Lead - 1997-98 to
2000-01 (9th Plan)
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Growth of Actual Demand for Lead
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Rate of Growth of Lead Consumption during
1997-2000
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Projected Damand - Supply Gap
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Lead Demand for Automobile Batteries
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Estimating Total Lead Demand
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Salient features of Batteries legislation

• Consumers to return used batteries and
  manufacturers / assemblers / reconditioners /
  importers responsible for collection of batteries
  and transport to registered recyclers.
• Auction of used batteries only in favour of
  registered recyclers
• Dealers are also responsible for collection.
• Level playing field
• Collection of batteries 50 in the first year,
  75 in the second year and 90 from the third
  year onwards.
• Batteries have been categorised.

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Registration Scheme

• Covers used acid batteries, zinc waste, waste oil
• Started in 1999 35 units registered for LAB
• Facility inspection mandatory
• Compliance with regulatory standards
• Secured landfill with leachate collection system
• ESM code of practice laid down
• Indian approach broadly on the lives proposed by
  GETF
• individual facility based
• waste specific
• mandatory compliance with national standards
• ESM compliance built into national legislation
  through mandatory registration of recyclers
• List of registered recyclers displayed on web
  site - transparency

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ESM code of Practice on Air Pollution Control
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What Attracts Dealer to the Trader
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Cost Advantages of Re-Conditioner
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Flow of Battery Scrap - Prior to Batteries
Legislation
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Battery Scrap Flow with 50 Collection
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Battery Scrap Flow with 75 Collection
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Battery Scrap Flow with 90 Collection
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Impact of Batteries legislation on demand-supply

• Role of traders would diminish / vanish
• Increase in supply - year 1
• increase in supply - year 2
• increase in supply - year 3
• Secondary smelting viable - addl. Capacities
  planned
• HZL to add 35,000 MT by 2003-2004
• BIL to add 25,000 MT by 2002-2003
• Italian technical know-how
• Availability of battery scrap - critical for
  future additions
• Enforcement holds the key

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Impact on Demand Supply (contd.)

• Demand and supply - informal sector ignored
• Bridging demand - supply gap
• Expand primary production-ore reserves limited
• Expand secondary production
• HZL to add 35,000 MT by 2003-2004
• BIL to add 25,000 MT by 2002-2003
• Italian technical know-how
• GETF approach to implement ESM in Basel
  Convention requires serious consideration
• Using the ISO system recognised in WTO
• facility specific, waste specific
• mandatory compliance with national standards
• transparency

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