Not only is lead a recyclable metal, it possesses some of the highest recycling rates of all materials commonly used today. In fact, more lead is now produced through recycling than mining.
With innate properties such as softness and malleability making it highly valuable and usable in a wide variety of applications, lead lends itself perfectly to reuse. Recycled lead is no different from newly-sourced metal in terms of quality and can often be reused without limits. Additionally, lead-based products are easily identified, allowing for a relatively simple collection and recycling process.
As a result, rising demand for second-hand lead has supported the growth of a healthy recycling industry in the Australia over recent years.
Can batteries be recycled?
Approximately 85% of the lead used today is found in batteries (often lead-acid batteries), all of which can be recovered and recycled for use in new products.
The disposal of batteries is now a highly regulated area, with tight controls stipulating their separation from the household waste stream and landfill sites. This is because batteries, when left to decay or burned with other rubbish, can leak harmful chemicals (such as mercury, cadmium and lead) into the local environment.
Why recycle batteries?
As well as reducing pollution which has the potential to harm people, animals and the wider environment, there are numerous commercial benefits to recycling batteries.
Most importantly: lead is a limited resource, a naturally-occurring material which can only be mined at substantial cost – financially and environmentally. Burying or burning such valuable resources is extremely uneconomical, to say the least.
With every battery holding the potential to be reused in a new product, it is now estimated that approximately 74% of all lead used in the U.S. and Europe is produced through recycling processes.
Super Metal Recycling is based in Dandenong, Victoria, servicing for all types of Scrap Metals, Unwanted Cars, Junk Cars, Free Car Removals, Wrecked Cars, Smashed Cars, throughout Melbourne Metro areas. We offer cash for Scrap Cars, specialise in Old Car Removals, Car Wreckage Removal, Recycling of old cars and Scrap Metal Recycling.
If you are at Harkaway, below is the best way to visit us.
Super Metal Recycling
345 Frankston – Dandenong Road, Dandenong South VIC 3175
(03) 9706 4909
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