Towards recycling battery materials

Li-Cycle Corp., a North-America-based lithium-ion battery resource recovery company, announced that it has recently completed its first shipment of commercially recycled battery material. The first batch of recycled materials has been extracted at Li-Cycle’s facility in Ontario, Canada, and prepared for re-delivery. The materials are metals such as cobalt, nickel and lithium – an excellent news considering the importance of moving towards a circular economy of batteries.

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As for Europe, securing access  to secondary raw materials through battery recycling is also in focus, both from a sustainability and secured supply of raw material perspectives. The REVOLT programme launched last December is a concrete example.