With the rapid growth of battery production and consumption, the pollution caused by heavy metals in disused batteries is also increasing, and there are a lot of useful ingredients in the waste battery such as nickel, cobalt, cadmium, and manganese; if not recycled, it is bound to cause waste of resources. So the waste battery re-cycling research is quite valuable. This paper summarizes the types of batteries, the metal elements in batteries and the types of microorganisms that can recover the metal elements in the used batteries. The latest research progress of the metal bio-recycling in the waste batteries of domestic and foreign is expounded. The main techniques methods and process installations of recycling metal elements are introduced. Finally, the development trend of metal element bio-recycling in waste batteries is prospected.
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