China Releases First National Standard for Carbon Emission Accounting of Battery Recycling Enterprises

Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation (National Standardization Administration) issued several national standard announcements. Among them, GB/T 32151.46-2024 Requirements for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting and Reporting - Part 46: Waste Battery Treatment and Disposal Enterprises, which was drafted under the leadership of Guangdong Brunp Recycling Technology Co., Ltd., has been released and implemented.

This represents the first national standard for carbon emission accounting for battery recycling enterprises in China. Prior to this, there was a lack of standards for "greenhouse gas emissions accounting" among waste battery treatment enterprises in China, leaving enterprises in a dilemma of having no standards to follow for related work. The issuance of GB/T 32151.46-2024 Requirements for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting and Reporting - Part 46: Waste Battery Treatment and Disposal Enterprises has successfully filled the gap in the field of greenhouse gas emissions accounting standards for waste battery treatment enterprises in China, providing a national-level basis for enterprises to carry out carbon emission accounting.

This new national standard improves China's carbon peaking and carbon neutrality standard system in the industrial sector and will strongly promote the green, low-carbon, and sustainable development of the battery recycling industry. With this standard as the benchmark, conducting carbon emission accounting for waste battery disposal will lay the foundation for carbon peaking and carbon neutrality across the entire battery industry chain and further enhance China's competitiveness in the global new energy industry.

Brunp Recycling, located in Foshan, is a world-leading enterprise in waste battery recycling. It has been conducting carbon emission accounting for battery recycling for many years, comprehensively promoting carbon reduction and establishing nine "zero-carbon factories." It has accumulated mature experience in carbon emission accounting methods and carbon reduction technologies. At the same time, Brunp Recycling drives the popularization and application of high-level battery recycling technologies and standards both domestically and internationally through leading standards and methodologies.

It is understood that Brunp Recycling, in collaboration with the China Automotive Technology & Research Center (CATARC) and relevant institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has released the "ICM Integrated Carbon Methodology for Power Battery Recycling," which has been widely recognized by the industry. It has proposed the RMTM (Recovered Materials Traceability Method) with BTB（Barcode-Time-Batch） as the technical core and the RMS (Recovered Materials Standard), addressing common challenges in the industry such as ineffective traceability of recycled material proportion accounting data, differences in processes among enterprises, lack of continuity in product disclosure, and poor matching of solution traceability, achieving forward accounting and reverse traceability of recycled materials in products.