The batteries are the way of the damage caused to human health and the environment Sisli schools, the Rotary Club, the place to homes and businesses, waste battery box project, we support the Memorial Health Group.
Sisli Rotary Club's collection of waste batteries Project support to patients with battery boxes will be placed at the Memorial Hospital of 8 different points to be collected from our relatives and staff waste batteries, in the framework of the project will be returned to us as a tree in the Memorial Forest.
Waste Batteries contain heavy metals harmful to human and natural life:
batteries, paper, despite having less volume than the waste such as metal and glass, they are thousands of times more natural life and contains substances harmful to human health.
Mercury mercury content in the 800 tons of mercury oxide batteries unusable drinking water getirmektedir.iç water or mercury entering the food chain with the human body; cancer, neurological disorders such as deafness, kidney, liver and the destruction of brain tissue, cause birth defects.
Cadmium: Body half-life of 10-25 years. cadmium storage because of the body's calcium weakens the bones in place, even in advanced stages coughing causes the breaking of bones.
LEAD: hard tissue such as bone and teeth in the half-life of 20 years. Iron and calcium deficiency, lead accumulates more vitamin D in excess of that body. 4 times more affected than adults or children aged 0-6 years. Deafness and anemia, the kidneys and brain inflammation, infertility, cancer and causing indirect death. There is a good recycling rate of lead batteries. 95 thousand corresponding to 90 percent of total sales in 1997 tons of batteries were recovered in the UK.
