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GNB battery recycling plant

Journal Article · · Battery Man
OSTI ID:430186
The most technologically and environmentally advanced recycling plant in the world has just been completed in Columbus, Georgia, according to GNB. GNB Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Dunlop. With a capacity of 9 million spent batteries per year, or 30,000 batteries a day, this new $50 million dollar plant replaces GNB`s 35-year old recycling plant in Columbus and increases recycling capacity there five-fold. The new plant will not produce any hazardous waste or sulfur emissions and the operation continuously reuses process water, completely eliminating effluent. The plant produces sodium sulfate from the battery acid, creating a third marketable product besides plastic and lead.
OSTI ID:
430186
Journal Information:
Battery Man, Journal Name: Battery Man Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 37; ISSN BAMAB6; ISSN 0005-6359
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English