Money from garbage: how much you can earn on old batteries. Disposal of batteries in Russia and how much does it cost? Where can I throw away batteries?

In connection with the temporary suspension of the acceptance of batteries by the Media Markt chain of stores (the most massive point for receiving batteries), the question of where to donate batteries has again become relevant. And more and more often the question of the reliability of the collection points began to sound - whether the batteries are really transferred for recycling.

All this inspired the PRO Waste Coalition to update the data on battery collection points. The list of reception points on the site sdaybatareiku.rf was taken as a basis.

The PRO Waste Coalition contacted each location: emails were sent, calls were made, face-to-face meetings were held. At the same time, a request was sent to the Megapolisresurs company with a request to confirm cooperation with one or another partner.

The results of this work are described in the table below (the table will be updated as new data become available).

Please note that batteries from collection points may be sent to different companies. The approved companies are:

- "Megapolisresurs" (http://www.eco2eco.ru/contacts/) - (Chelyabinsk) - an operating battery recycling plant.

To conclude agreements with offices and small battery collection companies, you can contact the battery collection manager Alena Yuzefovich at Megapolisresurs: [email protected], 8905 597 94 42, Alena Yuzefovich.

- "UKO" (http://www.u-ko.ru/contacts/) - (Lobnya, Moscow Region) - the company is currently accumulating batteries, preparing to launch its own recycling line.

If you know a battery collection point that is not listed in the table, please let us know.

Lidia Belyaeva will be glad to receive your letter: [email protected]

If you have a question related to the topic of batteries (where to donate, why it is important to recycle, decomposition of batteries, legislative regulation in this area), you can contact the PRO Waste Coalition for advice. Questions can be sent to the address above.

The PRO Waste Coalition expresses its sincere gratitude to companies showing social responsibility and individual activists who collect batteries for their conscious and responsible attitude towards conservation environment.

When traveling, especially on foot, we use batteries a lot, because. it is simply impossible to charge the batteries. Basically, batteries consume flashlights and GPS. As a result, after a 10-day hike, at least 6 AAA batteries (2 flashlights) and 6-8 AA batteries (GPS) are formed. Did everyone see that there is a sign on the battery - “do not throw it in the trash”? And now we have accumulated a significant number of these same batteries and the question arose - how to properly dispose of them?

Finally, organizations have appeared in Russia where you can take batteries and batteries for recycling, and not just throw them in the trash. Donate batteries in Moscow available at the following addresses:

They accept batteries only from individual library readers (if you are not a reader, you will be asked to sign up, it's free) and kindergartens (batteries from other organizations are not accepted).
Batteries can be donated to the library at the following addresses:
Moscow, Bolshaya Sadovaya st., building 1
or Moscow, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya st., 23
Phone for information on receiving batteries: 8-499-254-62-71, Gorshkova Natalia.

You can return the batteries to them at the office at the address: Moscow, metro station Kozhukhovskaya, 2nd Yuzhnoportovy proezd, 27a, building 1, Business Center "South Port".

You can return the batteries at the Rock Zone climbing wall on Andropov Avenue, house 22.

Batteries that have long served their due date often gather dust on the shelves of niches, garages or basements. Batteries not only take up useful space, but are also a hidden danger to human health. Over time, they release acid or lead fumes, which can significantly impair health. That is why, nowadays, http://metall-metallolom.ru/priem-akkumulyatorov is gaining more and more popularity.

Who needs old batteries?

Nowadays, there are several ways to get rid of an old battery and even earn money. Reception is carried out by large companies, small recycling companies, as well as conventional metal receiving companies. The only and most important difference between them is that at a traditional scrap metal collection point your battery will be accepted according to its weight.

Agree, this is very unprofitable, especially when you have a laptop battery. Therefore, it is best to contact specialized companies that buy old batteries according to their nominal capacity.

Finding such a reception point is not a problem. They can be found on the Internet, at addresses, and even on wheels (there are mobile collection points for old batteries).

Why do they need these batteries so much? And it's all about their insides, which can be recycled and further produce new materials. After all, raw materials from batteries are much cheaper than in the commodity market. Therefore, the manufacturer is interested in such an acquisition. Even on ordinary lead, you can save 3 times. And this is a significant indicator, especially on large volumes.

Often, organizations that purchase old batteries do not recycle them themselves. They cooperate with large manufacturers who, using modern and special equipment, disassemble batteries and extract the necessary elements.

Thanks to such a simple chain, new products from the manufacturer is much cheaper. The sales turnover is increasing, the consumer is satisfied with the affordable price and special offers, when you can get a good discount on the purchase of a new one when you return the old battery.

Battery collection points in the Moscow region

If you do not know where you can donate batteries, this is not a reason to eat them!))
(Moreover, now you already know where you can take them).
After all, discarded batteries do not disappear anywhere, they can return to us and our descendants in water, air and products.

They are recycling batteries.

They are collect / store with subsequent transfer to companies engaged in the processing of batteries (reception points-legal entities):

They collect/store for subsequent transfer to battery recycling companies (including private volunteer initiatives):

1. Online store "BIODOLINA"
Donate Batteries Campaign.
You can either bring used batteries to the self-pickup point for orders (Krasnye Vorota metro station), or give the batteries to the courier upon receipt of the order (for residents of Moscow and the Moscow region).

6. Rural library. Moscow region, Egorevsky district, pos. New.

7. Containers installed as part of an experiment on the separate collection of used batteries in large chain stores Krasnoselsky district of Moscow.
To date, the collection boxes have already been installed:
- in the Grocery House store at 22/24 Krasnoprudnaya Street,
- in the library. Antoine de Saint-Exupery in 2nd Krasnoselsky lane, building 2,
- at the dance school "Sam Plus" at Verkhnyaya Krasnoselskaya street, 34,
- in the TPC "Lubyanka" store at Lukov lane, house 8.

8. At the address: 1st Street 8 March, 3, on Mondays from 17:00 to 19:00 used batteries will be accepted. From the side of the entrances there is a glass entrance, on the intercom of the glass entrance you need to dial 1. Collection coordinator

Chelyabinsk businessman Vladimir Matsyuk was one of the first in Russia to start recycling batteries, which are assembled for him by Media Markt and IKEA. Business is still scanty, but very promising

Chelyabinsk entrepreneur Vladimir Matsyuk (Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC)

Waste industry

Growing up in Soviet Kazakhstan, Matsyuk from personal experience knew how to be careful with resources. “There were often supply problems,” the entrepreneur recalls in an interview with RBC. - Therefore, from the skins of eaten oranges, my mother made candied fruits, and from the seeds of sea buckthorn, if they were insisted on sunflower oil, a disinfecting oil was obtained. For me then it was natural course of things".

In the late 1990s, Matsyuk graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the South Ural state university(Chelyabinsk) and began to combine teaching and work in commercial structures. In 2004, he decided to take his students' summer internships seriously for an organization theory course, proposing that they create a real firm. The students themselves came up with the name of the company - "Megapolisresurs", and then began to decide what it would do. Matsyuk already had experience in solving "environmental" issues for Chelyabinsk firms, so it was decided to focus on an understandable topic (waste paper recycling). But the practice quickly ended, and Matsyuk felt a taste for business. “I decided to let there be waste, but with precious metal, we need to pull out valuable contents from them and lower the hazard class,” he recalls.

Matsyuk decided to start collecting fixer - a solution that is used to fix images on film or paper. Depending on the type of shooting (black and white, color, x-ray) when fixing up to 70% of the silver contained in photographic paper (from 5 to 40 g per 1 sq. m ), goes into solution, from which silver can be easily extracted. “The main thing was to correctly determine the purchase price of the spent solution, so that it would make sense for laboratories to store it and sell it to us,” recalls Matsyuk . According to the entrepreneur, a liter of fixer is purchased at a price of 40 to 70 rubles: “Up to 4 G silver." At current prices for silver (about 27 rubles per gram) per liter of fixer " Megapolis resource "can earn about 110 rubles. To start this business (mainly for the purchase of equipment) Matsyuk spent $ 20 thousand. In the profit came out after eight months. Profit was 25-30% of revenue. Silver obtained in the form of granules " Megapolis resource » sells to jewelers (clients include Veliky Ustyug plant "Northern black").

Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC

In 2008, the silver extraction business was added to the extraction of silver from photographic solutions. “At first they thought that silver could be washed off the films with the help of harsh chemicals, but these are people, manual labor, high degree danger, but I want to sleep peacefully,” recalls Matsyuk. - We found a biological solution - special bacteria turn the film into gelatin, from which silver is then extracted. The whole procedure, in terms of danger, is close to cheese production.”

In 2009, Megapolisresurs started recycling microcircuits and electronics (medical and office equipment), which, in addition to silver, contain gold and other rare metals. Requirements for the processing of various equipment were introduced in 2002 by the federal law "On Environmental Protection", and for their violation, companies were threatened with a fine of 100 thousand to 250 thousand rubles. or suspension of activities for up to six months. “The first clients were consulates and foreign companies: they were terribly afraid of our laws, according to which we can’t just throw away computers,” recalls Matsyuk. Now Megapolisresurs actively serves government agencies on this topic - in the last two years alone, according to the public procurement website, Matsyuk's company has won more than 40 tenders for the disposal of various equipment for a total of about 2.5 million rubles.

Batteries are also waste.

The idea to recycle batteries was thrown to Matsyuk “from the audience”. In 2013, when the entrepreneur was speaking at a conference, he was asked why he recycles circuit boards but does not recycle batteries. “I replied that we can also use batteries, but no one collects enough of them,” says Matsyuk. After the conference, one of the public organizations Petersburg, which collected 2 tons of used batteries. For "Megapolisresurs" it was the first experience with batteries.

How batteries are recycled

For the processing of batteries, Megapolisresurs uses a production line where microcircuits are disposed of. First of all, the batteries are crushed and the iron elements are separated with a special magnetic tape. Manganese and zinc (in the form of salts), as well as graphite, are extracted from the resulting polymetallic mixture in several stages of leaching. In total, four removable cells account for 80% of the weight of the batteries. The production lines of Megapolisresurs allow processing up to 2 tons of batteries per day. Battery recycling takes about four days.

In 2013, the battery collection project decided to launch the Media Markt chain, which chose Megapolisresurs as a recycling partner (the companies had already collaborated on photo solutions). For the trading network, this is a social project (more than half of the batteries sold are recycled in Germany). At the start of the project, it turned out that the batteries were not included in the Russian waste classifier, and Media Markt and Megapolisresurs spent almost half a year to correct this defect and other organizational measures. “The total weight of batteries sent for recycling in 2014 was about 18 tons,” a representative of Media Markt told RBC. “This is more than double what we planned when the project was launched (7 tons).” IKEA (three points in Moscow, about 6.5 tons collected), the VkusVill chain of stores (56 points in Moscow, 1.4 tons), as well as retail chains in several regions (several dozen points) also give their batteries to Matsyuk. .

Garbage resource

565 million batteries was sold in Russia in 2013

30 tons of batteries redesigned Megapolisresurs in 2014

2 tons of batteries per hour can process "Megapolisresurs"

70 rub. — the cost of recycling 1 kg of batteries

1.5 million rubles the company gained from the recycling of batteries in 2014

100 million rubles — total revenue of Megapolisresurs

Sources: company data, Greenpeace Russia, RBC calculations

For "Megapolisresource" » battery recycling - small but promising business. Unlike fixer, films and computers for batteries Matsyuk not only does not pay, but also receives money - from the companies that collect them. “For the recycling of 1 kg of batteries, we pay 70 rubles,” the director of public relations told RBC. Vkusvill Evgeny Shchepin . “At the same time, we ourselves have to deliver the batteries to the warehouse.” Megapolisresource " in Moscow. They do not provide transportation services yet. Manager environmental project Media Markt Alena Yuzefovich in November 2014 told online edition of Recycle that the "initial price tag" Megapolisresource "for the transportation and processing of a kilogram of batteries - about 110 rubles." The company does not make money on partners, but takes from them only the cost of delivery and recycling of batteries: “70 rubles. is the average cost of recycling 1 kg of batteries,” says Matsyuk . According to him, the income from recycling batteries in 2014 amounted to 1.5 million rubles.

Most of this amount was contributed by battery collectors, so far Matsyuk is not very good at trading in recycling products. From 1 ton of batteries, you can get 288 kg of manganese, 240 kg of zinc, about 47 kg of graphite. “The content of manganese (28.8%) and zinc (24%) in batteries is higher than in the richest ores (up to 26%),” says Matsyuk. “If we look at batteries as raw materials, and not as waste, we will see a unique deposit in which there is a lot of valuable raw materials.” But this is theoretical. And in practice, it turns out to sell only iron from batteries: it goes to the Mechel plant in Chelyabinsk. It is still difficult with sales of non-ferrous metal salts: “The volumes are small and of little interest to wholesale buyers, and retail sales are too laborious for laboratories.”

According to RBC calculations, if Megapolisresurs sold chemically pure metal, then 1.4 tons of graphite, 8.6 tons of manganese and 7.2 tons of zinc extracted from 30 tons of batteries could bring the company about $ 50 thousand (about 1.9 million rubles at the average exchange rate of the ruble in 2014; based on market prices for metals). But to get manganese and zinc in the form of a metal, additional investments of $1.5 million are needed, says Matsyuk.

The crisis has failed

The main sources of income for Megapolisresurs are still the processing of office equipment and photo waste. In 2014, these areas, according to the entrepreneur, brought the company in the amount of 100 million rubles. (approximately equal). In 2013, according to Kontur.Focus, the company's revenue amounted to 49 million rubles, and net profit - 7.7 million rubles.

Matsyuk expects recycling volumes to increase. “In December 2014, amendments to the law “On production and consumption waste” were adopted, which oblige the manufacturer to pay either a recycling fee for their products, or to undertake obligations for its partial return collection,” says Matsyuk. “But while there are no relevant by-laws, it is not clear how this will all work.”

In the case of batteries, if at least 10% of what is sold is recycled (in 2014, according to Matsyuk, 8 thousand tons were sold), this will allow Megapolisresurs to earn over 100 million rubles annually.

In 2015, Matsyuk plans to earn 220 million rubles. for the disposal of office equipment and about 100 million rubles. - on the extraction of silver from films and solutions. How realistic are these plans? Last year, Megapolisresurs ended with a loss (Matsyuk did not disclose its size) due to a 20% fall in silver prices in the second half of the year (from $20 to $16 per troy ounce). As a result, the companies Megapolisresurs and Fractal (also owned by Matsyuk) did not begin to fulfill the contracts concluded earlier both for the processing of scrap containing precious metals (for example, with the Research Institute of Semiconductor Devices - for 3.8 million rubles), and for the supply of silver (to the plant "Northern Chern" - by 427 thousand rubles, to the company "Yuvelirdragmetal" - by 3.6 million rubles). This, as follows from the file of arbitration cases of the Pravo.ru system, forced the partners of the company to apply to the courts. “We took out loans and purchased equipment based on silver prices of $30-35 per troy ounce, and we were forced to sell the metal at prices almost half that,” Matsyuk notes. In January 2015, he registered a new company, Megapolisresurs, in Kurgan.

Moscow competitors

In Moscow, in addition to Megapolisresurs, several other companies accept batteries for recycling: Ecoprof LLC - 580 rubles each. for 1 kg, Megapolis-Group LLC - 100 rubles each. for 1 kg. Whether these companies have their own battery recycling facilities, their employees could not say by phone.