Albert Motel, CRP
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Only 5% of all lithium-ion batteries are currently recycled, so it’s great to see some new legislation being introduced to improve recycling.I just have a few concerns:1. This bill does not include batteries contained within a device. Not including them is a loophole that will almost certainly reduce the impact of this bill, and not do much to reduce the risk of fire from improperly disposed Li-ion batteries. 2. Once again, we haven’t learned from the failures of the Covered Device Recovery Act of 2010, which required manufacturers selling electronics in PA to take back the same amount of e waste, by weight, as they sell in new electronics each year. Electronics keep getting lighter and lighter, so manufacturers have been able to reach their required quota for e waste recycling within just a few months, making it very hard to recycle electronics in PA throughout most of the year.This bill does the same thing, setting extended producer responsibility to recycle by weight of batteries sold. What happens when batteries become smaller and lighter? Also, since batteries contained in devices are not included in this bill, and we still have significant gaps in the recovery of these e waste devices, will we even capture enough batteries through this bill?3. Where is the recycling infrastructure and how will we expand it to meet the needs of this bill? There aren’t enough battery recycling facilities in the US, and people aren’t quite eager to have them pop up in their backyards due to the extreme fire risk associated with lithium-ion batteries.I think that if this bill is to be effective, it must include batteries contained within devices, or the Covered Device Recovery Act of 2010 must be amended to improve the recovery rate of e waste containing batteries.I worry that people will figure out the loophole and just throw out devices with batteries instead of properly recycling them. After all, lithium-ion batteries are in everything from greeting cards to automobiles these days. Failure to significantly improve the capture rate of batteries would continue to create fire risks for waste collections and post-collections operations, not to mention the loss of resources as these materials experience a linear economy death.
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Scott Butler
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See here some of the research supporting the conversations that we are currently having in the UK about this issue.https://www.materialfocus.org.uk/press-releases/over-1200-battery-fires-in-bin-lorries-and-waste-sites-across-the-uk-in-last-year/https://www.materialfocus.org.uk/press-releases/is-fasttech-the-new-fast-fashion/
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