The ministry of steel and mines is working on a legislation to allow import of secondary lead and ensure organised collection of lead battery scrap.
The legislation is likely to allow recycling of secondary lead, which will reduce reliance on imported primary lead.
Among the beneficiaries will be the railways, the transport sector and households as users of invertors and uninterrupted power supply (UPS) systems.
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"The cost of such recycling is economical as they involve minimal investments, plus scale economies can be achieved at very low levels", according to L Pugazhenthy of the India Lead Zinc Information Centre, a technical body representing producers of lead and zinc.
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