The Mizoram Pollution Control Board (MPCB) on January 30, 2024, issued the criteria for establishing a facility for waste lithium-ion batteries.
The units (depending on the type of recycling process) shall be equipped with the following minimal requirements before registering to the portal, as follows: -
• Dedicated spaces for receipt and storage of waste batteries;
• Waste LIB discharging operation;
• Facility for crushing/breaking of battery packs/batteries with Air Pollution Control Systems;
• Separation of components aluminium, copper, iron, plastics, anode & cathode material (black mass);
• Hydro-metallurgical operations to recover key metal salts like cobalt, nickel, manganese, zinc, lithium, cadmium etc. – the reactors to be connected with suction hoods and suitable APCDs (such as scrubbers);
• Pyro-metallurgical operations to make metal ingots - the furnace to be connected with suction hoods and suitable APCDs (such as scrubbers);
[Circular No. 4 of 2024]
