Lead levels in air rise on battery recycling at Muncie facility

INDIANA, USA (Scrap Monster): Battery recycling may be causing more pollutants to be released at Exide Technologies facility at Muncie, according to a report in Indiana Daily Student. It quoted Philip Stevens, Chair of Environmental Science Faculty for IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs, as stating that pollution is caused because of battery recycling Overexposure to lead can have adverse health effects both to children and adults, but the effects are often irreversible in young children and the unborn.

The US Environmental Protection Agency recently found 16sites in 11 states in violation of its new air quality standards for lead, and Muncie is home to one of them. The previous EPA standard alled upto 1.5 micrograms of pollutants per cubic meter, but the new standard allows only 0.15 micrograms.