Implementation of modern technology on battery recycling habits

Abstract

Due to the lack of education and misinformation, most people throw away batteries in their homes, including Zinc Carbon, Alkaline, and lithium-ion batteries. Consequently, more than 300 million batteries are thrown away as household waste each year, ending up in landfills. This paper used the survey to collect a diverse group of people’s cognition and understanding of recycled batteries to seek a novel solution to a common problem. There is a strong need to develop economically feasible technology that could efficiently help recycle batteries. One of the goals of this project was to look into how different people will affect their knowledge about battery recycling. My team’s hypothesis is that by creating a novel battery recycling infrastructure to generate an innovative incentive for consumers, we will increase the recycling rate of alkaline, lithium-ion, and rechargeable batteries. The experiment results show that our infrastructure is favorable to the general public, which proves our hypothesis is correct.