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The Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act, Public Law 104-142
USA Congress / 13.05.1996 / in force as of 13.05.1996
Public law with binding character in the USA.
The purpose of the Act is to phase out the use of mercury-containing batteries and provide for the recycling of nickel cadmium, small sealed lead-acid batteries, and certain others.
The Title II of the Act, known as the ”Mercury-Containing Battery Management Act” has the purpose to phase out the use of batteries containing mercury. Section 203 states that no person shall sell, offer for sale, or for promotional purposes any alkaline-manganese battery manufactured on or after the date of enactment of the Act, with a mercury content that was intentionally introduced (as distinguished from mercury that may be incidentally present in other materials), except that the limitation on mercury content in alkaline-manganese button cells shall be 25 milligrams of mercury per button cell.
The types of batteries that fall under the Title II are:
The US Battery act does not have any specific reference to substitution, which was a less popular preventive solution in the mid nineties, when the Act was published, than it is now. Nonetheless, the provisions regarding the phase out of batteries containing hazardous mercury compounds may initiate measures to find safer alternatives for a much used source of energy of our days.
The Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act
Implementation of the Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act (pdf)
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