TechXplore

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

University of Leicester scientists have developed a technique for sustainably extracting valuable metals from a waste product of used batteries with a mix of water and cooking oil.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

US-based battery materials manufacturing technology company Sylvatex (SVX) has received $1.4 Supplemental funding of $982,000 for an additional two-year project will allow SVX to continue the development of competitive, domestically produced battery-grade LFP materials and support new domestic lithium-ion battery (LIB) manufacturing.

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JANUARY 20, 2025

UK-based clean technology group Altilium has announced a new partnership with LevertonHELM, the UK subsidiary of German chemical firm HELM, to develop a sustainable domestic supply chain for lithium in the UK. This is expected to lead to offtake and tolling agreements for the supply of recycled lithium in the UK. Source: Altilium

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Tesla's co-founder is pioneering a circular system for electric vehicle batteries. This week, I've been thinking a lot about electric vehicle batteries and the massive potential for battery recycling and reuse. The industry needs to make the process of EV battery production, use, reuse and recycling much more efficient.

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TechXplore

JANUARY 7, 2025

The batteries used in our phones, devices and even cars rely on metals like lithium and cobalt, sourced through intensive and invasive mining. As more products begin to depend on battery-based energy storage systems, shifting away from metal-based solutions will be critical to facilitating the green energy transition.

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JANUARY 10, 2025

billion to expand its first commercial-scale lithium operation, the Rincon project in Argentina. Plans call for an increase in annual production capacity of battery-grade lithium carbonate from the current starter plant capacity of 3,000 tonnes (3,307 US tons) to a total of 60,000 tonnes (66,139 US tons).

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

As global effort to fight climate change intensifies, the challenge for battery manufacturers and their supply chains is to find ways to meet the rapidly growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs). Each EV lithium-ion battery pack contains around 8 kg of lithium, and last year global lithium production was 100 000 tons.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 2, 2022

Local residents and businesses are being urged to safely dispose of lithium batteries by a waste management company in Bristol, Grundon. Lithium batteries are extremely common and used to power everything from key fobs to mobile phones, power tools to laptops.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

Recovering the critical raw materials residing within electronic waste will require investment, and a legal framework to incentivise this will be essential, say the authors (image credit: Steve Janosik , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Batteries from WEEE and end of life vehicles.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 22, 2022

As we enter the warmer months, waste and recycling sites are increasingly vulnerable to fire. Such risks are amplified by the presence of batteries in waste streams and in the vehicles and machinery used on waste sites. The content of waste streams seems to change in an ongoing, unpredictable fashion.

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JANUARY 12, 2025

Ace Green Recycling , a provider of sustainable battery recycling technology, has secured a site in Mundra, Gujarat, to build what it says will be Indias largest battery recycling facility. Ace plans to establish 10,000 metric tons per year of LFP battery recycling capacity in India by 2026. Source: Ace Green Recycling

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JANUARY 31, 2025

US battery recycling technology firms Redivivus and Re-New-Able Technologies have partnered to establish a scalable lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Illinois. The facility will process batteries of any state of charge or health from local businesses and OEM factories. ” Source: Redivivus .

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

As the battery industry is projected to surpass $300 billion by 2030, driven by the rise of electric vehicles and renewable energy storage, manufacturers face the dual challenge of rapid innovation and stringent quality requirements. Sponsored by Lumafield. Download this whitepaper to learn more.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

An exploded view of an EV battery: Researchers have demonstrated a method to upcycle end-of-life battery waste into materials that can be used for ‘next generation’ battery cathodes. The researchers believe this is the first time such materials have been made from recycled EV battery feedstock.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Shops that sell large volumes of batteries have to provide a battery recycling collection. A survey ¹ carried out on behalf of Zero Waste Scotland has revealed that 25% of people who responded admitted they disposed of batteries in the general household bin.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 11, 2025

Beyond sustainability, they offer high energy density, enabling longer ranges and quicker refueling compared to traditional lithium-ion battery systems. Turning Waste into Clean Energy At the heart of Hyundais innovations is a pioneering waste-to-hydrogen initiative focused on repurposing food scraps.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

More recently, this technique has been used to clean up and recover materials from electronic waste, particularly the printed circuit boards of computers, solar panels, contaminated water and even uranium dumps. Despite the high costs, these plants rarely recover all valuable battery materials. Find out more about the research here.

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Transport is at a crossroads as we move away from filling our tanks with liquid fossil fuels and powering them up from battery charging points. However, the lithium-ion batteries that displaced those tanks have a finite lifespan and must be replaced when their recharge capacity falls below a usable level.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

Materials from Scottish-grown seaweed could help to improve the life-span and charge time of lithium-ion batteries used for the likes of electric vehicles, with a new first-of-its-kind prototype already being tested by expert researchers.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, storing up a potentially huge waste management problem for the future, according to a new study. Individual cells are formed into modules, which are then assembled into battery packs.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

A new partnership aims to demonstrate how bespoke circular-economy batteries can tackle the mounting problem of e-waste, specifically in relation to electric vehicles. This is positive for decarbonisation, but raises a new sustainability issue – waste. Waste is the elephant in the room.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The commonly held view that lithium-ion batteries are not being recycled is not true. China recycled around 67,000 tons of lithium-ion batteries last year, or 69 percent of all the stock available for recycling worldwide, according to Hans Eric Melin, founder of U.K.-based based Circular Energy Storage.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A faster rate of electrification in the automotive industry will hasten the arrival of circularity (for batteries), according to the authors. The reason is that the faster electric vehicles spread throughout the automotive market, the sooner there will be sufficient quantities of batteries available for recycling.”

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A new technique offers a less energy-intensive way to recover lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries, and uses carbon dioxide for the process rather than the high temperatures or corrosive and hazardous chemicals traditionally associated with this activity.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

DMC and EMC are key components of the electrolyte solvent for lithium-ion batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles. The plant is scheduled for completion in July 2026, and to begin operation in November of the same year. DMC is also used in the semiconductor manufacturing process. Source: UBE

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Scottish Water has completed work on its first large-scale battery storage project which the utility says will accelerate its drive towards net zero emissions by 2040. Four vanadium flow batteries, manufactured by Invinity Energy Systems, have recently been installed at the waste water treatment works that serve the city of Perth.

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The Verge: Energy

JULY 9, 2024

A broken cellphone with a rechargeable battery lies in a collection container for hazardous materials at a waste sorting facility. More recently, a particular subclass of PFAS called bis-perfluoroalkyl sulfonimides (bis-FASIs) has been used as electrolytes and binders in lithium-ion batteries.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Tozero launched in Munich two years ago with a low-carbon way to extract lithium from battery waste streams. The post Tozero lands €11 million to extract lithium and other critical materials from waste appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The “hydrometallurgy” process, which extracts.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Rice University scientists have reported what they believe to be a partial solution to the mounting disposal problem of worn-out lithium-ion batteries. It relies on a unique “flash” Joule heating process they have developed to produce graphene from waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2021

The University of Birmingham has purchased a laboratory-scale rare earth roll separator for its School of Metallurgy and Minerals lithium-ion battery recycling research facility. This includes a battery shredding facility and a range of physical separation equipment. High-intensity magnetic separation.

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MAY 5, 2021

Rio Tinto has commenced production of battery-grade lithium from waste rock at a lithium demonstration plant at the Boron mine site in California. An initial small-scale trial in 2019 successfully proved the process of roasting and leaching waste rock to recover high grades of lithium.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Embargo til April 17 TDK Ventures has invested in lithium-extraction startup Novalith, which has developed a novel system for extracting battery-grade lithium from resource deposits. Novalith points out multiple drawbacks of current lithium production methods. We’re using CO 2 and sequestering it as part of our process.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Tees Valley Lithium (TVL), a subsidiary of Alkemy Capital Investments, has received planning permission to build a lithium hydroxide refinery at the Wilton International Chemicals Park in Teesside, UK, following an environmental impact assessment and local consultation over an 18-month period. Source: Alkemy via Battery Tech News.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 21, 2021

Vehicles such as the big rigs that carry goods across state lines, vans that drop off packages at your front door, garbage trucks that pick up our waste or the forklifts that move pallets across the floor in warehouses. Battery-powered commercial vehicles also highlight the power of the lithium-ion battery in a unique way.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Right now the industry grid scale energy storage is dominated by lithium-ion technology as restoring waste thanks to the EV car and battery development and the costs coming down, but I think we'll be seeing more and more longer duration batteries in different view formats which we might even not know yet.".

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The European Geothermal Energy Council (EGEC) has awarded the Ruggero Bertani European Geothermal Innovation Award 2025 to EnBW Energie for its pioneering CASCADE project, an innovative approach to lithium extraction from geothermal brines.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 7, 2024

E-waste is already an issue overwhelming global recycling, and EVs will soon be adding to it Hydrogen fuel cells have already been defining themselves as an important part of the effort to decarbonize energy, industry, transport, and a number of other industries, and now Honda is looking to the technology to help overcome the challenge of e-waste.

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