Scrap Battery Recycling

Nearly all batteries can be recycled, but there are some can be easily recycled more than others. Lead batteries for instance are 99% recyclable especially due to the value of lead and toxicity levels.

Recycling Lead Acid Battery

Lead battery recycling involves five basic steps:

• Collection:
• Crushing
• Sorting:
• Sieving:
• Hydro-metallurgical and Pyro-metallurgical processes:
• The plastics (polypropylene pieces) are washed and dried then sent to downstream plastic recycling facility.

Old battery acid is handled in two ways:

• Neutralization of the acid
• Converted into sodium sulfate.