Responsible Recycling of Batteries

Recycling batteries is an important step to protect the environment and prevent hazardous materials from ending up in landfills. The recycling process helps to recover valuable materials and reduce the potential for pollution. Here’s a general guide on how to recycle batteries:

Identify the type of battery: Batteries are either disposable or rechargeable. Common types include alkaline, lithium-ion, nickel-cadmium (NiCd), Un-interruptible Power Supply (UPS), Mercury Cell (Small Dry Cell Batteries), and lead-acid batteries.

Check Recycling options: Battery recycling options may vary depending on the kind of batteries you have for recycling and your location. Contact Madenat Recycling to know your options.

Prepare batteries for recycling: Waste batteries are hazardous. Before recycling them, it is important to prevent potential hazards. Tape the terminals (positive and negative ends) of each battery with non-conductive tape or place them in individual plastic bags to prevent contact. This step helps to avoid accidental fires or electric shock during storage and transportation.

Drop-off or collection: Madenat Recycling conducts various Hazardous waste collection programs. You can either drop-off your batteries in these programs or at our designated drop-off locations. We also provide collection services from your location. Do contact us to explore all the right options for you.

Consider hazardous waste collection events: As a corporate, or a community, do organize hazardous waste collection event. This gives more people an opportunity to safely dispose of batteries.

Educate others: Spread awareness about the importance of battery recycling among friends, family, and colleagues. Encourage them to recycle batteries instead of throwing them away and explain the potential environmental benefits.

Remember to always follow local regulations and guidelines for battery recycling, as they may differ based on your location. Contact Madenat Recycling for proper recycling of batteries. That will help to conserve resources, reduce pollution, and contribute to a more sustainable future.

How To Recycle Right?

Has it ever happened to you that you collected many recyclable items & took them to a recycling facility only to find out it was all perfect for a trash can? However noble your intentions may be, but if you cannot execute them in the right manner, no one will benefit from it… not you, nor your community, and definitely not the environment. It is very important to understand HOW to collect recyclables. Let us help you with some tips below.

 

1. If you are a recycling enthusiast, you will have a recycling bin, a dedicated box or a corner in the house where you collect all recyclables to give to a recycling facility periodically. While you collect, segregate them as plastic, paper, glass, metal etc. All these have different recycling process. If not segregated, it is an unnecessary extra effort for the recycler, and he might charge you for the required manpower.

 

2. Most of the metal items go into your recycling bin. But when you put Food cans in the bin, rinse and clean them. The paint cans need to be emptied before giving for recycling. Pressurized cans used for paint, deodorant or any other reason, also need to be sprayed out completely to reduce the pressure before recycling them. This saves your time at the recycling center. If not, there might be municipality procedures to follow with the recycler to dispose the liquid.

 

3. Dead batteries need to be collected in a separate recycling box. Also make sure you drop them at a recycling facility before they start leaking. The chemical that it emits, is hazardous for living beings around, and the environment. Batteries that are received at Madenat recycling facility, go through a process of securing the terminals, repacking, and then shipping according to the Basel Convention requirements to our partners abroad for proper and environmentally safe recycling processes.

 

4. Keep all tube lights, fluorescent bulbs in closed box. Their broken glass, mercury, can harm the one handling them. Please note that spent lamps are hazardous waste and the recycler needs to have the right machinery to destruct them to segregate glass, metal, and the mercury. As this process is complicated and costly, the recycler may charge you for the spent lamps. But this small amount you pay, will have priceless returns for you and the generations to come.

 

5. Electronics are called urban mines. They consist of ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals and even variety of precious metals. Hence, do not forget about those old electronics kept in the bottom most drawer. If recycled in time, they can be refurbished to be used by needy or even recycled to extract metal and plastic for further use. Our house is also filled with variety of cables. They also consist good amount of metal and plastic which needs to be retracted for reuse. Collect all non-working cables at home in a recycling box. Be it non-working earphones, broken chargers, power cables, Ethernet cables that are not in the use etc. Recycling E waste in time is important.

 

We hope our tips will ease your recycling journey and you will be a recycling hero for everyone around you. See you soon at Madenat Recycling Facility in Dubai Investment Park 2, Dubai, UAE.

Summer Care Routine for Electronics

Middle East is known for its scorching heat in the peak summer months. There is over 13 hours of direct sunlight and the mercury soars even higher than 45C. But we all have adjusted to the climate and don’t let it affect our daily life. But have we done the same for all the electronics we are surrounded with? May be not. So today, let us look at a few things we should be doing to maintain a good summer care routine for our devices.

  • No direct Sunlight

Even though you have bought a GCC model of the phone, the maximum temperature most mobile phones can bear is 45C. Avoid using electronics keeping in direct sunlight. When keeping them in car, place in shaded area like cup holder or glove box. Also, never leave your electronics in a parked car. Inside temperature of the parked car rises as it is closed and can damage the electronics.

  • Do not stack

When you reach home, you keep laptop on the table, remove earphones and place them on the laptop, if you have 2 phones then keep them stacked on one another either besides or on top of the laptop. You then sit in front of the AC to cool-off. But while you are cooling yourself, the electronics are heating up due to trapping of heat because we just kept them stacked. There needs to be 2 to 3 cm gap between 2 devices. This helps maintain airflow and avoid unnecessary heating up. Most electronics have vent at the back of the device. When placing them anywhere, the vent should not be covered. Also there Hence, maintain breathing space for electronic devices.

  • Cover well

We carry our devices everywhere. Be it a pool, beach, or a stroll in the park. If they are not covered in a case, water splashes, can splash while swimming on Sand, water, dust find their way to the internal hardware of the device through speakers, earphone jack and so on

  • Be mindful of device charging

When the battery is charging, the device heats up. If we have kept it on the cushion or in a closed set up, the heat increases which can reduce the battery life. Hence always charge your devices in a well-ventilated area, on a cooler surface which will help control the temperature and will lengthen the life of electronics.

  • Shut down

If after taking all the necessary care also device heats up and is misbehaving or malfunctioning due to overheating…Just shut it down! Let the device cool down, resolve the problem on its own and then you can restart it for use.

We hope these tips will help you take good care of your electronics this summer. Follow these to avoid any electronics fires and related accidents.

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