UNIVERSAL ARGE 11

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he Objective of Project: Environment is an ambient physical, biological, social, economic and cultural. And human beings and other living beings during life maintain their relationships and their interaction reciprocally in this environment. In this connection, to maintain a healthy life is only possible with a healthy environment. An impairment of environment that is an associations system and environmental issues aroused generally has been started with man-made factors by spoiling the natural balances. Nowadays, ecocide also immediately increases in parallel with growing of technology. One of technologic productions caused an environment destruction is batteries used immensely by us during everyday life (home, working places, industry and so on). But the level of adequate awareness has not been created unfortunately about waste batteries in our country. However batteries included mercury, cadmium, lead, zinc, mangan, lithium, iron, nickel, cobalt and chemicals engender a considerable danger on human beings and environmental health. These substances can be flow into soil and ground water via soil, so initially soil and then water, plants and also animal and humans fed with these plants are damaged. It is appeared that diseases associated with waste batteries are initially neurologic disorder, central nervous system diseases, cancer, renal and liver diseases. Besides, the damage of all substances in batteries can be reached to deadly magnitude. When taken into account that a small alkaline battery pollutes a soil area of 4 of square meter and that this soil is rendered to not be able to production the danger of magnitude can be understood. Therefore, waste batteries engender a considerable danger in terms of environmental and human health as well as we also mentioned above by their thrown into the dump as haphazard and their presentation directly or indirectly to the receiving environment. But we don’t ignore that the technology improving provides easiness in our life. As we will not be able to discard technologic improvements, suitable environmental programmes are the most correct way to be ensued for environmental pollution and impairment of natural balance within acceptable limits. Two main criteria are implemented to decrease heavy metal level in batteries using heavy metal in the world. These, - To decrease the level of heavy metal in batteries. - To minimize the environmental damage with battery by collecting it separately. Considering also above mentioned reasons, this project has been implemented to determine the negative effects of waste batteries on plants and to increase the level of awareness in our society in this particular. 

The results introduced in our project are remarkable in terms of the magnitudes not to be considered insufficient of the negative effects of waste batteries on environment and thereby plants will be shown. Therefore, together with we also mentioned the precautions in introduction section the following practices by actualizing will be possible to decrease the negative effects of waste batteries on environment: - The used battery in home and working place should not be mixed with domestic waste and disposed to the street haphazardly. *Waste battery should not be embedded in soil, *Waste battery should not be disposed in sea, river, lake, or canalization, *Waste battery should not be burned in fire, *It should be kept in mind that waste nickel batteries including cadmium matter cause widely harmful effect on human health, *Waste batteries should be accumulated in a space apart (nylon bag, box, jar and son on), *Waste batteries in home or working place should not be retained with a long time, *Waste batteries should be disposed in waste battery accumulation box in the nearest area, or delivered in shop purchased, *It should be kept in mind that some heavy metals in waste batteries will be recycled. In order to perform this purposes, *The voluntarily participation to the campaigns to be implemented must be provided for the accumulating of waste batteries, *We must invite the battery users to behave in the way that mentioned above in our around. 

Thank you to our school ARGE team.

References: 1. http://www.biltek.tubitak.gov.tr/merak_ettikleriniz/index.php?kategori_id=11&soru_id=4709. 2. http://www.cevreorman.gov.tr/co_00.htm

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This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.