From cell phones and laptop computers to cars, trains, even airplanes, batteries are everywhere.
从手机和笔记本电脑到汽车，火车，甚至飞机，电池无处不在。
But their life is not unlimited says Anand Bhatt from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization.
澳大利亚英联邦科学与工业研究组织的阿南德·巴特称，电池的使用寿命是有限的。
We're gonna have very large volumes of batteries which will end up in landfill.
大量废旧电池将被扔进垃圾场。
And that's when the environmental problems will start.
那么环境问题就会产生。
The most recycled are classic lead-acid car batteries, up to 90 percent.
传统的车用铅酸电池回收率最高，可达百分之九十。
While many others are simply thrown away, contaminating soil and water with highly toxic heavy metals.
其它种类的电池直接被扔掉，电池中含有毒重金属，会污染土壤和水资源。
Recycling old electronics is a growing business.
回收旧电子产品是一个日益增长的产业。
As demand grows for heavy metals essential for manufacture of lithium-ion batteries,
为了制造锂离子电池，作为主要原材料的重金属需求不断增加，
companies such as Neometals from the Australian city of Perth see economic value in collecting and recycling their own rechargeable batteries.
像澳大利亚珀斯市的“Neometals”等公司，他们在回收和再利用自家充电电池上看到了商机。
Chris Reed of Neometals explains. We are producing the lithium units and then recycling.
“Neometals”的克里斯·里德解释道，我们生产锂电池，之后循环利用。

We are taking them back at the end product, unscrambling the egg, recovering the valuables.
我们将成品再回收，将有用部分回收再利用。
The decline of a rechargeable battery's capacity is a gradual process.
充电电池容量下降是一个渐进的过程。
At some point, it can no longer power an energy-intensive device like this electric motorcycle.
在某种程度上，它无法支撑像电动摩托车这类能源消耗大的设备。
But it can still be used to store electricity.
但它仍然可以用来储存电力。
Alternative power enthusiast and owner of an electric scooter Chris Jones says,
克里斯·琼斯是一名替代能源发烧友，他还拥有一辆电动小摩托，
old rechargeable batteries can still hold as much as 80 percent of their power.
旧的可充电电池仍然拥有高达80%的电力。
These are repurposed lithium-ion batteries from electric scooters.
这些再利用的锂电池都是从电动小摩托上拆下来的。
Now I'm going to be using them to power my home,
现在我要用它们为我家供电，
on charging these up with solar panels on the roof of my shed and going to be able to charge my scooter at night.
通过屋顶上的太阳能电池板为它们充电，晚上就能用这些电池给我的摩托车充电了。
As the number of electric vehicles rapidly increases,
随着电动汽车数量的迅速增长，
enthusiasts hope it will not be long before companies start repurposing still active rechargeable batteries before throwing them into the recycle bin.
发烧友们希望在不久的将来，企业可以开始循环利用充电电池，而不是将它们扔进回收箱。
George Putic VOA News.
VOA记者，乔治·普提克报道。