Urge to create plan for treating waste batteries in Mexico

Jose Antonio Guevara Garcia, says that in Mexico there is still a delay in the trafficking of waste batteries

While in other regions of the world as the European Community legislation exists governing the use and disuse of batteries, and Mexico is still a delay in the matter, warned the specialist José Antonio Guevara García.

The member of the Research Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Bioremediation, Faculty of Basic Science, Technology and Engineering at the Autonomous University of Tlaxcala, said that therefore there is an urgent need to develop a plan or model of waste management control of these systems energy.

In a speech on 'Current status of the batteries in Mexico: prevention of pollution today or mass decontamination in the future', in Cuajimalpa Unit of the Metropolitan Autonomous University, the expert provided an overview of the status of these devices in Mexico and the world.

He said the main health problems that generate waste batteries in humans are damaging the brain, kidneys and developing fetuses, as well as nervous and reproductive systems, stomach paralysis, anemia and changes in levels cholesterol.

Based on studies from the National Institute of Ecology, Guevara García added that the battery consumption in the country increased 13 times for the period 1996-2007, and spent two thousand from 500 to 32,000 900 tonnes. In terms of consumption per capita, rose from 5.2 batteries per inhabitant in 1996 to 12.6 cells per inhabitant in 2002.

According to the Mexican Association of BC Cells (Amexpilas), the Mexican market for that product for 2004 was 228 million, representing a thousand 980 million pesos, referred to the specialist.

The chemical industry also announced that the 600 million batteries sold directly in Mexico, every year 200 million (33.3 percent) are illegal devices, so we felt it appropriate to recall that in the national territory and not There are manufacturing these items.

In the past seven years in Mexico, estimated, 35 000 have been discarded 500 tons of batteries.

While from 1960 to 2003 have been released in Mexico 635 000 tons of batteries, of which 30 percent (190 thousand tons) correspond to toxic substances, according to the National Ecology Institute.

Thanks to INFORMADOR.COM