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Altilium to open EV battery recycling facility in Plymouth, UK

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UK-based Altilium is building a new EV battery recycling plant in Plymouth, as the company embarks on the next phase of its ambitious growth plans. Located in Plymouth’s Estover Industrial Estate, the new recycling plant is expected to begin operations by the end of the year.

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Recycling lithium-ion batteries slashes emissions, secures future mineral supply

TechXplore

Recycling lithium-ion batteries to recover their critical metals has significantly lower environmental impacts than mining virgin metals, according to a new Stanford University lifecycle analysis published in Nature Communications.

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EU project aims to separate and recycle nuclear waste

Envirotec Magazine

With the aid of new EU funding, a new project aims to investigate the options for recycling some elements of nuclear waste using novel separation techniques. The materials to be recycled are lanthanides, a group of chemical elements which include some rare earths. In order to recycle waste, it has to be separated.

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Recycling batteries with citric acid

Science Daily: Renewable Energy

A simple, highly efficient, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly process could provide a viable pathway for the sustainable recycling of depleted lithium-ion batteries (LIBs): No chemicals beyond citric acid need to be added to leach out and separate over 99 % of the lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese metals contained in NCM batteries.

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Mercedes-Benz opens battery recycling factory in Germany

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Mercedes-Benz has opened its own EV battery recycling plant in Kuppenheim, Germany, which uses an integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical process to recover raw materials. The plant carries out all steps, from shredding battery modules to drying and processing active battery materials.

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$357k funding progresses US lithium-ion battery recycling initiative

Envirotec Magazine

Team Portables, a consortium for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) recycling incentivization, has received Phase II funding from the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize. The Battery Passport can be accessed by IOT identifiers as part of the labeling for each LIB.

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Mercedes-Benz opens ‘Europe’s first’ integrated hydrometallurgical battery recycling facility

Energy Storage News

Automotive group Mercedes-Benz has inaugurated what it claimed is the first integrated hydrometallurgical facility in Europe for battery recycling in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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