In 2002, at the invitation of the Environment Ministry of the Dominican Republic, the ILA conducted an environmental assessment of the closed Metaloxa secondary lead plant in the Dominican Republic. The plant was a participant of a used lead battery recycling project implemented by the Basel Secretariat and the Regional Centre for Central America and Mexico (BCRC-CAM).
ILA found that basic environmental control systems were either missing or not operating correctly resulting in lead contamination throughout the site and nearby residential neighbourhoods.
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ILA worked closely with the Dominican Government to locate and secure a new site in an Industrial Zone and design the new facility.
The new secondary lead facility complete with all the necessary ancillary environmental control equipment and a mechanical battery breaker began battery recycling operations under a new name, Meteoro, in 2011. The new facility has a lead production capacity of 18,000 tons per annum.
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