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Battery Day is celebrated every year on 18 February, the birth day of the Italian Alexander Volta, who invented it in 1800 and is set to pay tribute to the small energy source that makes our lives easier.
Batteries today are available for many purposes and are found everywhere in our daily lives, in many household items. From cars to smoke detectors. Our phones, watches, hearing aids all use batteries. Medical devices rely on them to keep people alive. They monitor our children as they sleep and serve as support systems for our safety.
The variety of batteries is constantly changing. In the modern age, portable electricity isn't something we think about every day because it's so easily accessible. We charge the batteries in our phones, we use the batteries in our cars as we travel down the road. We even have portable chargers that can charge our batteries wherever we are. We never get stuck or delayed because we always have an alternative source. Solar batteries are recharged every day, storing energy for later use.
Every year, around 800,000 tonnes of car batteries, 190,000 tonnes of industrial batteries and 160,000 tonnes of consumer batteries enter the European Union.
Despite their usefulness, a large number of these batteries contain hazardous substances such as lead, cadmium, mercury, nickel, cobalt, cobalt, chromium, vanadium, lithium, lithium, manganese and zinc, as well as acidic or alkaline electrolytes, and also contain significant quantities of important raw materials.
Consequently, the uncontrolled disposal of batteries presents both a major health and environmental hazard and a significant waste of valuable material resources. Many of the components of these batteries can be recycled, avoiding the release of hazardous substances into the environment and, in addition, providing valuable materials in important products.
On the occasion of "Battery Day", we should all collect the batteries that we have forgotten in drawers, toys and electronic devices and take them to the special bins of the "AFIS Cyprus" Organization for recycling. The bins are located in telecommunication and electrical shops, shopping centres, supermarkets, stores, shops, schools, public buildings, bank branches and generally in places with high traffic.
The easiest and most direct way to find out which is the nearest bin is the free mobile application "RECYCLING CY" or through the AFIS website www.afiscyprus.com.cy.
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