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Benchmark Minerals: Battery production scrap will be the main source of recyclable material this decade

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As demand for lithium-ion batteries accelerates, recycling of raw materials will be an essential part of the circular EV ecosystem. Benchmark forecasts that scrap will account for 78% of the pool of recyclable materials in 2025. Collecting process scrap is simpler than collecting end-of-life batteries.

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Cirba Solutions helps Toyota expand battery recycling network to nationwide program

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Toyota Motor North America is expanding its battery recycling network with Cirba Solutions, a battery recycling materials and management company. Source: Toyota Motor

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Ecobat to build new battery recycling facility in Arizona

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Battery recycling company Ecobat is building its third lithium-ion battery recycling facility and its first in North America. The plant will be located approximately one mile from the existing Ecobat Resources Arizona facility, which has been manufacturing battery anodes for 15 years. “We

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Aqua Metals begins pilot of AquaRefining battery recycling system

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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. Source: Aqua Metals.

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Cirba Solutions and GM extend collaboration on EV battery recycling

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Cirba Solutions and GM have extended an existing agreement to recycle battery scrap generated by manufacturing and research at selected GM facilities through 2024. The original agreement dates from 2021, and GM has already recycled more than a million pounds of batteries. Source: Cirba Solutions.

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Li-Cycle opens battery recycling facility in Alabama

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Battery recycler Li-Cycle has announced that its Alabama Spoke plant in Tuscaloosa has started commercial operations. The Alabama Spoke uses Li-Cycle’s patented technology to recycle and directly process full EV battery packs without any dismantling through a submerged shredding process that produces no wastewater.

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There’s gold (and lithium and cobalt) in all those EV battery packs

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Here’s how Redwood Materials is putting recycling at the heart of the burgeoning battery belt. There’s a bit of a battery manufacturing boom going on. In 2021, battery manufacturing in the United States totaled approximately 55 gigawatt-hours’ worth of cells, or roughly enough batteries to produce 700,000 EVs.

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