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Safe disposal of used batteries from solar products
Started this discussion. Last reply by Yotam Ariel Aug 11, 2013. 8 Replies 0 Likes
Under a World Bank funded programme we’re involved in in Kenya we’ve been asked to work with solar lantern distributors on ideas of how the industry can begin to develop strategies for recovering and…Continue
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Evan Mills replied to Simon Collings's discussion Safe disposal of used batteries from solar products"Some discussion going on in the Energy Access Practitioner Network, here.
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Salvatore Chester replied to Simon Collings's discussion Safe disposal of used batteries from solar products"Dear Simon,
battery quality and durability is one issue. Disposal another. Talking about solar lanterns, my view is to simply go and push for LiFePO4 = 2000 cycles batteries, allowing minimum 5 years (could last much more) for basic pico products.…"
Andrew Barson replied to Simon Collings's discussion Safe disposal of used batteries from solar products"Barefoot Power (trading through Smart Solar in Kenya) has been working on this for a while and offers a 10% discount when distributors return old batteries when they purchase new batteries. Then they are shipped to waste recovery…"
Simon Collings replied to Simon Collings's discussion Safe disposal of used batteries from solar products"Thanks to those who responded to my question - a few people also contacted me by email. Rental or 'pay as you go' models certainly create conditions where used batteries can be recovered.
Everyone who responded so far emphasised the need…"
Joshua Pierce replied to Simon Collings's discussion Safe disposal of used batteries from solar products"Dear Simon,
When building our business model we struggled with this issue. Understanding that the likelihood that small (say less than 200Wh) batteries were very likely to end up in a hole somewhere and that only very strong incentive programs were…"
Evan Mills replied to Simon Collings's discussion Safe disposal of used batteries from solar products"Perhaps some lessons could be learned from how the recovery/recycling of CFLs has been done. There was a lot of effort in western Europe (Germany in particular, if memory serves) in the early 1990s; less elsewhere perhaps. I wrote an…"
Rolland Zhang replied to Simon Collings's discussion Safe disposal of used batteries from solar products"It is dangerous for the Lead toxicity, so that you need to deal it by 2 ways.
1. reduce the number of the battery which enter people life. such as the small solar products, because no body will recycle the battery from rural area.
2. use the clean…"
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Under a World Bank funded programme we’re involved in in Kenya we’ve been asked to work with solar lantern distributors on ideas of how the industry can begin to develop strategies for recovering and recycling used batteries. We're particularly concerned with small sealed lead acid (SSLA) batteries because of the toxicity of the lead. Does anyone know of people working on this – any distributor who has a scheme for recovering used batteries?See More
Simon Collings commented on Peter Alstone's blog post Big Markets in Small Towns: Results from a close study of the market for off-grid lighting in three towns in Kenya"Hi Peter, this looks like a very interesting study. The link to the report on the Lighting Africa site doesn't work though. Is it just me having this problem? How do I get a copy of the report? Thanks Simon"
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