Lithium battery environmental protection is not a false proposition

Compared to ordinary dry cells, lithium-ion batteries have clean too much, so much so that lithium batteries are used in electronic products for decades, lithium battery pollution problem has not been seriously, but after the lithium battery is widely used in new energy cars, as the production of lithium batteries has rapidly increased, lithium battery scrap produced in the process of pollution problems begin to be attention.
On the one hand, heavy metals, such as cobalt, manganese and nickel in ternary battery lithium cobalt acid material, are not so toxic, but they are also heavy metals. In comparison, lithium iron phosphate is much cleaner. On the other hand, it is the electrolyte in the battery, which contains lithium salts, organic solvents and various additives. If not handled properly, it will also cause pollution.

To solve the pollution problem of lithium batteries, on the one hand, of course, it is from the lithium battery technology itself. For example, lithium hexafluoride (V) acid was used as lithium salt in the past electrolyte. Although this lithium salt has good performance, it was discarded because of arsenic toxicity. On the other hand, the power battery is fully recycled:
For example, each car fuel has a big piece of lead-acid batteries, compared with the heavy metals in the lithium battery, large pieces of lead in lead-acid battery toxic, but a solid and heavy metals of the lead-acid battery electrolyte extraordinary, any leak point in the natural environment is a small-scale ecological disaster, but why lead-acid battery didn't put the beautiful hills and green to destroy us? This is because of the high recycling value of lead-acid batteries, with almost 100 percent of lead-acid batteries recovered in China, and few waste materials flowing into the ecosystem.
Is the recycling value of lithium batteries high? That has to be high! For example, because cobalt supplies are limited and the price of lithium cobaltate cathode materials is skyrocketing, it is definitely profitable to recycle batteries from scrap.
Since recycling is valuable, are the companies responsible for recycling batteries professional enough? From 2018 to now, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has published a total of more than 20 enterprises in line with the "new energy vehicle waste power battery comprehensive utilization industry specification conditions". These enterprises have a perfect process basis and environmental protection measures in the treatment of power batteries.
So it seems that all aspects of the recycling of power batteries are unobstructed, and the pollution of power batteries can be completely solved? But there are still bugs in the process -- the profitable recycling of power batteries has created a lot of unlicensed companies in the industry, which end up with a lot of power batteries, and the resulting pollution problem is difficult to regulate.
For scrap power battery is likely to cause pollution this topic, the main problem is not behind the battery is out of pollution or battery recycling effectively, for now, it seems that there is more a industry regulatory issues, but fortunately, power battery possible pollution is everyone can see, belongs to the problem of tooling, this kind of problem solving is only a matter of time, Just like the nuclear power generation, although the nuclear pollution is bad, but the nuclear power plant has established a very perfect safety system, now nuclear power has become one of the cleanest energy sources.