Battery Council International
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Battery Council International
The Battery Council International (BCI) is a trade association of manufacturers of original-equipment and after-market automobile batteries and other lead-acid batteries. Its headquarters are in Chicago, USA.
It promotes the recycling of lead-acid batteries, and claims that almost all car batteries are eventually recycled.[1]
After Ecology Center, Environmental Defence and the Clean Car Campaign published a report in 2003 which called for the elimination of lead-based car batteries,[2] [3] [4] BCI issued a press release disputing the report's conclusions.[5]
The trade association provides industry standards for testing, dimensions, and sizes of lead-acid batteries worth over $1 billion in the North American market each year. The trade association provides models for legislation to encourage the recycling and safe handling of automotive lead-acid battery products.
It also organizes regular conferences and meetings.[6]
References
- ^ "Lead Fraternity Keeps the Loop Closed". Recycling Today. March 7, 2000. http://www.recyclingtoday.com/Article.aspx?article_id=15156. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
- ^ "Automobile Industry Largest Source of Lead Pollution Today, Child Health Advocates, Environmentalists Call for Phase-out of Lead Car Batteries". Ecology Center. http://www.ecocenter.org/press/releases/20030723.php. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
- ^ "Getting the Lead Out: Impacts of and Alternatives for Automotive Lead Uses (full text of report)". Environmental Defence. July 17, 2003. http://www.edf.org/documents/2887_leadbatteries.pdf. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
- ^ "Executive Summary: Getting the Lead Out". Environmental Defence. July 18, 2003. http://www.edf.org/documents/2888_gettheleadout_ExecSumm.pdf. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
- ^ "Battery Council International Response to: 'Getting the Lead Out: Impacts of And Alternatives for Automotive Lead Uses,' Written By Environmental Defense, Ecology Center, Clean Car Campaign.". Battery Council International press release. July 23, 2003. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-23909599_ITM. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
- ^ "Lead price outlook mixed at BCI conference.". American Metal Market. April 20, 2005. http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-4119541/Lead-price-outlook-mixed-at.html. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
- Wiener, Leonard (October 26, 1977). "Management firms' creed: 'Separate but equal'". Chicago Tribune: pp. C9. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/614979402.html?dids=614979402:614979402&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Oct+26%2C+1977&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Management+firms%27+creed%3A+%27Separate+but+equal%27&pqatl=google. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
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