RSR Corporation Praises Final CEC Report on Hazards of Spent Lead-Acid Battery Exports
Exports Detailed in “Hazardous Trade”
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) release this week of the final version of its in-depth study, “Hazardous Trade: Examination of US-generated Spent Lead-acid Battery Exports and Secondary Lead Recycling in Canada, Mexico, and the United States,” confirms the need for immediate action on spent lead-acid battery exports says Bob Finn, President and CEO of RSR Corporation.
“Continued efforts by leading battery manufacturers and brokers to bypass strictly regulated American and Canadian recyclers for the poorly regulated, low wage facilities of northern Mexico threaten advances in safe, clean battery reclamation,” said Finn. “RSR is pleased to see the CEC make strong recommendations to curb this hazardous trade.”
Despite assurances by the companies exporting batteries to Mexican facilities, the CEC report declares, “few smelters appear to have the types of controls, processes and technologies necessary to receive a permit in the United States or Canada today.” This is cause for concern because, as the report states; “improperly managed lead recycling operations, even on a very small scale, can have devastating effects on the health of workers and the surrounding communities.”
“The fact that domestic used lead acid battery recyclers operate under increasingly strict state and federal regulations while maintaining a recycling rate approaching 100 percent is a true environmental success story,” Finn said. “The practice of sending spent lead batteries to dirty recyclers in Mexico threatens this good work, puts U.S. jobs and risk, and is simply inexcusable.”
“We thank CEC for their research and call on all concerned organizations and governments to take action to halt what is truly a hazardous trade,” Finn concluded.
The report can be found at www.cec.org/slabs
About RSR Corporation
RSR Corporation is a privately held secondary lead smelting company that operates lead acid battery recycling facilities in California, Indiana, and New York. RSR uses state-of-the-art Wet Electrostatic Precipitator (WESP) technology and a highly trained workforce to ensure the lead acid batteries we recycle into refined lead do not harm the environment, employees, or the communities in which we work.
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