Recovering lead, plastic, and sulphuric acid from used automobile batteries
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Lead is a poisonous metal and a significant environmental pollutant. An important source of waste is the lead used in car batteries. Research published in Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal shows how lead, scrap plastic, and sulfuric acid from used car batteries might be retrieved based on a mathematical reverse logistics network model.