Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In detail, the results show that China is expected to be able to employ recycling to meet its own demand for primary lithium for electric vehicles, obtained through mining, from 2059 onwards; in Europe and the US, this will not happen until after 2070. The research is published in Resources, Conservation and Recycling.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

A UN-backed report funded by the EU outlines a proposal whereby the recycling of certain components and sub-systems within electronic equipment should be mandated by law. Acceptance by the manufacturing and recycling industry is also needed, as the standards will only work when there is widespread adoption.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Shops that sell large volumes of batteries have to provide a battery recycling collection. The Scottish government-funded circular economy advisory group Zero Waste Scotland is reminding Scots that they should recycle batteries separately to other household waste after a new survey revealed a quarter of people dispose of them incorrectly.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 19, 2023

The rules include a labeling mandate and will eventually require battery makers to meet certain levels of recycled content for critical minerals found in batteries, such as cobalt, lithium and nickel.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 22, 2022

As we enter the warmer months, waste and recycling sites are increasingly vulnerable to fire. Instead, they are often simply thrown in with general household waste or recycling. After a fire, operational downtime can be crippling to a waste and recycling business. James Mountain offers pointers on fire safety.

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TechCrunch: Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Tozero, a Munich-based startup that recovers valuable raw materials from recycled lithium-ion batteries, is gearing up to scale. Currently, Tozero’s pilot plant processes nine tonnes of lithium-ion battery […] © 2024 TechCrunch. first-of-a-kind or FOAK) plant.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

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. Source: Altilium

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Charged

JUNE 24, 2024

Lithium Australia’s subsidiary Envirostream Australia has signed an exclusive agreement with Volvo Group Australia’s bus division to recycle end-of-life lithium-ion batteries from its electric and hybrid fleet. Source: Lithium Australia

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

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. Lithium-ion batteries are clearly a candidate for such innovative circular thinking. .

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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. Technology plays a key role in the successful management of secondary materials such as lithium-ion batteries.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2021

That trend is the motivation for a "significant strategic investment" this week — the amount isn’t being disclosed — by investment firm Closed Loop Partners in ERI, the largest IT recycling and refurbishment company in the United States. . percent of electronics are collected, refurbished or recycled worldwide. For comparison, the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Professor Slater of the University of Birmingham said: “The challenge is no longer about recycling. DRX materials are seen as a promising alternative to the regular layered structure of conventional cathode materials, as they increase the capacity of the cathode, allowing development of higher energy density rechargable Lithium ion batteries.

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Canary Media

AUGUST 23, 2024

A big facility for recycling lithium-ion batteries is now operating in Central Ohio, where workers are busy salvaging and repurposing the metals and minerals needed to drive the clean energy transition. On Thursday, Cirba Solutions officially opened its expanded battery recycling plant in Lancaster — making it the…

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TechXplore

APRIL 22, 2024

Lithium salts make batteries powerful but expensive. An ultralow-concentration electrolyte based on the lithium salt LiDFOB may be a more economical and more sustainable alternative. In addition, the electrolyte could facilitate both production and recycling of the batteries.

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Researchers at Monash University have developed a new lithium-sulfur battery design with a nanoporous polymer-coated lithium foil anode that reduces the amount of lithium required in a single battery.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 13, 2022

-Li-Cycle’s fourth Spoke recycling facility in North America has capacity to process up to 10,000 tonnes of manufacturing scrap and end-of-life batteries per year -The Spoke can recycle the equivalent of batteries required for approximately 20,000 EVs per year and has the ability to directly process full EV battery packs

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Charged

JULY 26, 2022

Albemarle , a specialty chemical firm, has announced a new lithium production plant in Antofagasta, Chile, which it says will be its third chemical conversion plant. According to Albemarle, “the plant is expected to double lithium production.”

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Charged

JUNE 21, 2022

Battery supplier InoBat Auto and mineral processing firm Green Lithium have formed a strategic partnership to build and operate a large-scale lithium refinery in the UK. Source: InoBat.

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Charged

MARCH 14, 2023

Battery recycling company Ecobat is building its third lithium-ion battery recycling facility and its first in North America. We are thrilled to grow our global lithium-ion battery recycling footprint with a new facility in Casa Grande,” said Ecobat CEO Marcus Randolph. Source: Ecobat

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Charged

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The facility will be designed for novel materials research, advanced process development and acceleration of next-generation lithium products to market. The company expects that innovations at the proposed site will enhance lithium recovery, improve production methods and introduce new forms of lithium for advances in battery performance.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Tapping its expertise in copper refining, Sumitomo says it can cheaply extract copper, nickel, cobalt and lithium from used EV batteries by crushing them, heating the resulting powder to specific temperatures, and adjusting oxygen levels. Pressure is growing to use more recycled materials in EV batteries. Source: Nikkei Asia.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

While the cost of lithium-ion batteries has dropped dramatically , the technology still leaves something to be desired. The solid-state batteries that QuantumScape is developing promise to dramatically reduce the cost and size compared to current lithium-ion technology. Krause said VW already has opened a battery recycling facility.

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Energy Storage News

APRIL 2, 2024

Big investments are being made into the battery recycling sector in Europe as the continent looks to increase the domestic supply of critical materials for its lithium-ion gigafactory projects.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Regarding the prominent issue at hand, it is really true that electric car batteries can be recycled, and there are specific methods that allow for the recovery of up to 95% of the raw materials. Global governments are now insisting that electric vehicle (EV) batteries be designed and manufactured in a manner that facilitates easy recycling. 

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Charged

APRIL 28, 2021

Battery Resourcers , a battery recycling and manufacturing company, recently completed a $20-million Series B equity round to support the development of a commercial-scale processing facility with the annual capacity to recycle 10,000 tons of batteries—roughly the amount of batteries from 20,000 EVs.

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altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

-Li-Cycle will Add a Fourth Spoke in Alabama as the Pace of New Battery Mega-Factory Deployment Continues to Exceed Expectations -Commercial Spoke 4 will Provide an Initial Processing Capacity Increase of up to 5,000 tonnes of Manufacturing Scrap and End-of-life Batteries per year, Bringing Li-Cycle’s North American Recycling Capacity to 25,000 tonnes (..)

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Charged

MAY 30, 2022

Li-Cycle , LG Chem (LGC) and LG Energy Solution (LGES) have agreed to cooperate on battery recycling and sales. Li-Cycle has agreed to recycle LGES’s battery manufacturing scrap and other lithium-ion battery material from its North American manufacturing sites over a 10-year period.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Solid-state batteries differ from lithium-ion batteries in that the latter uses a liquid electrolyte. The promise of the solid electrolyte is increased energy density, and a solid-state battery can be up to 10 times that of a lithium-ion unit of the same size. ” .” ”

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Canary Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Ascend Elements has raised $542 million to take its plans to recycle lithium-ion batteries to the next level. The investment round announced Wednesday will support building a factory in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where Ascend will process the “black mass” derived from slicing and sorting old lithium-ion batteries into…

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

These purified metals can be recycled indefinitely back into multiple supply chains. Sebastien Farnaud, Professor of Bio-innovation and Enterprise, said: “Most of the world’s lithium lies under the Atacama Desert in South America, where mining threatens local people and ecosystems. Find out more about the research here.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

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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Charged

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Altilium , a UK-based clean technology group, has produced recycled battery cathode active materials (CAM) that are comparable to commercial materials. The cycle cell capacity of Altilium’s recycled CAM reached 193 mAh.g⁻¹ in testing, aligning closely with the 190-194 mAh.g⁻¹ range typical for commercial CAM. Source: Altilium

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

Nevada-based Aqua Metals has begun operating a pilot battery recycling facility at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center. Feedstock has been introduced into the automated system, enabling recovery of valuable critical minerals from spent lithium-ion batteries. Ramping of the pilot facility to process metric tons of black mass per month.

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Charged

APRIL 20, 2023

Specialty chemicals company Albemarle has announced plans to build a lithium hydroxide processing facility in Chester County, South Carolina. The so-called Mega-Flex plant will be able to process diverse lithium feedstocks, including lithium from recycled batteries.

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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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Living Green Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Are Used Lithium Batteries Recyclable? Batteries are considered hazardous because of the metals and other toxic materials they contain. Most batteries are put into rubbish bins and then taken to landfill sites where they decay and leak.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Volkswagen has opened its first EV battery recycling facility to recover raw materials such as lithium, nickel, manganese and cobalt in a closed loop, together with aluminum, copper and plastics, achieving a recycling rate of more than 90% over the long term. Source: Volkswagen.

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