“One finger battery thrown into a dustbin pollutes 400 litres of water or 20 cubic meters of soil”, tells Alla Izmesteva, a head of NIBULON’s environmental protection department. “Used batteries contain hazardous substances such as mercury, cadmium, lead, tin, nickel, zinc, etc.  Influenced by atmospheric factors, the batteries are quickly destroyed at dumps, and these substances evaporate. The toxic substances get into the living organisms through the water and air, damage them, deteriorate reproductive capabilities, and provoke genetic changes and cancer.
Being environmentally conscious, NIBULON has not neglected this problem. In 2013, the company joined an important initiative to collect and recycled used batteries and storage sells, having placed special safe containers at its facilities in Mykolayiv. As part of the given initiative, the company’s employees have gathered 77 kg (or more than 2,500 pieces) of used batteries within two years. NIBULON gave them to Argentum SE (Lviv) to be recycled.
NIBULON calls on other Ukrainian companies and ordinary citizens not to be indifferent to this important problem. A small battery can affect our environment greatly. It is within our power to prevent these terrible consequences.