EPA Adds Battery Smelter Facility in Arecibo, Puerto Rico to the Federal Superfund List

Submitted on 1 August 2017 - 1:25pm

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(New York, N.Y. – July 31, 2017) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added a former battery recycling facility in Arecibo, Puerto Rico to its Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. As a result of previous operations, the site is contaminated with lead, arsenic and heavy metals. Before it temporarily stopped operating in the spring of 2014, The Battery Recycling Company, Inc.