We buy used cars for scrap, thus allowing you to junk your car for cash in the regions of Bexley, Huber Ridge and Dublin. We are car buyers that offer money for a junk car that ultimately recycles the junk car scrap. We handle junk car scrap 6 days a week throughout Franklin County. Getting money for a junk car is great, even better with free towing included when we buy used cars for scrap throughout Gahanna, Grandview Heights and Minerva Park. As a junk your car for cash service provider, we understand that car buyers have a responsibility to environmental compliance. We will pay money for a junk in any condition and will diligently insure that we do not pollute either our air or water in the areas of Grove City, Groveport and Jefferson, OH. Our topic in this update centers on how US scrap auto batteries end up in Mexican recycling plants and unfortunately can be dangerous to those workers exposed to them.
In the February 26, 2016 edition of The Washington Post, writers Joshua Partlow and Joby Warrick authored a story titled ‘A dangerous export’ which tells us the following: “Juan Gonzalez Mendoza’s physical deterioration came swiftly, with deep pain in his bones, elbows & knees that refused to bend. Numbness spread throughout his left side and finally he was unable to walk or even stand. Doctors where he worked — a battery recycling plant near Monterrey — told him he had a fever. His job was putting used U.S. auto batteries into giant ovens. Private medical tests eventually confirmed the problem: acute lead poisoning. The Eléctrica Automotriz Omega plant is a concern in the neighborhoods near the factory where spent car batteries are converted into lead to for new batteries. Elevated levels of lead have turned up in workers’ blood and in nearby lots where children play & families raise livestock. Company officials did not respond to requests for comment.
A tide of used batteries has swept into northern Mexico as metal recyclers seek to profit from the country’s relatively lax controls on lead exposure in the workplace. Officials estimate that the number of batteries shipped to Mexico has grown by more than 400% lately. As many as one in five lead-acid batteries from U.S. vehicles end up in Mexican recycling plants. Mexico has sought to strengthen standards for lead exposure, but no plants have the costly pollution controls and worker-protection systems in place. Gonzalez used his vacation days from the plant to travel to a private medical clinic where lab results indicated lead concentrations. For nine months he was stuck in bed and unable to work. Auto batteries are among consumer products that still contain large amounts of lead. In the US nearly all spent batteries end up being recycled, which involves removing the plastic, acid and other chemicals and then melting down the lead to use in new batteries. U.S. battery recycling takes place in high-capacity smelters. Workers wear protective clothing to ensure no traces of lead leave the plant with them. Special exhaust scrubbers trap tiny lead particles and electronic monitors sniff the air to guard against accidental exposures.
Americans, while seeking to eliminate an environmental problem at home, are exporting contamination abroad, to a region less capable of defending itself. The Eléctrica Automotriz Omega plant employs several dozen workers who say they earn about $13 for a 12-hour shift. Soil samples taken at locations around the Omega plant were analyzed by a laboratory. The results showed lead contamination ranging from 40 to 400 times than naturally occurring lead levels. The company does test for lead, but workers aren’t given documentation of the test results and think that Omega’s doctors play down lead exposure. Employees are instructed to shower during the workday, and before entering the cafeteria, they receive a hand spray that is supposed to change color if contaminants remain. Both employees and nearby residents complain about the lead and toxins they believe are pumped out of the plant’s smokestacks. Residents say they suffer chronic headaches and bone pain and that pets and livestock fail to reproduce or drop dead without warning.” The full article is available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2016/02/26/a-dangerous-export-americas-car-battery-waste-is-making-mexican-communities-sick/
Columbus area junk car buyers
For additional information about scrap vehicle battery recycling we encourage you to visit article by Cleveland Scrap Cars at this link. When we buy used cars for scrap, they are transitioned to end-of-life vehicle status in the cities of New Albany, Galloway, and Hamilton. Residents of Pickerington, Reynoldsburg, and Upper Arlington should avoid leaving that old car, truck or van sitting around—get money for junk car scrap instead. When you junk your car for cash with us, you are actually initiating a positive impact on the environment. Those with a scrap vehicle in Westerville, Whitehall, and Worthington, should know that we’ll provide you money for a junk car and pick it up today. We will pay cash for cars and provide complimentary scrap vehicle removal in Brice, Harrisburg, and Lockbourne. Even if your car is broken down at a repair shop in Marble Cliff, Obetz, or Riverlea, we can offer same-day junk car hauling!