Tag: Battery Recycling

November 1, 2023

Starting this month, residents in the District of Columbia (D.C.) will be able to drop off used batteries for free at recycling sites throughout the city. The new battery recycling program, launching November 1, is funded by battery manufacturers and […]

August 8, 2023

Earlier this week, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm visited Lancaster, OH to break ground on Cirba Solutions’ $250 million battery recycling facility. “We have the opportunity to get all of these batteries, whether it is from your phone, or […]

June 14, 2023

To help combat the ever-increasing issue of e-waste and the sheer number of batteries being thrown away today, the Department of Energy is funding electronic recycling in a big way. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) just announced that it […]

April 20, 2023

Battery and e-waste are an incredibly common problem today, but luckily new solutions are popping up all over the place. Now, it looks like Washington state is about to make things much easier for residents to safely recycle batteries. Gov. […]

March 27, 2023

The United States Department of Energy has funded $3.5 million to the Argonne National Laboratory to advance battery recycling technology. The funding will also support the effort to expand commercial-scale, domestic production of battery materials. Argonne scientists have developed new […]

February 14, 2023

ACE Green Recycling (ACE), an integrated technology and supply chain platform for battery materials, recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with STC, a leading European engineering, procurement and construction management company specializing in building plants and equipment for battery […]

November 15, 2022

Three billion batteries get thrown away each year in the United States, according to GreenIT. The waste and recycling industry bears the brunt of the effects, having to manage the hazardous items that can combust and cause fires. Call2Recycle, a […]

November 4, 2022

As mobility is becoming more and more battery-driven – many countries plan to allow only emissions-free cars in the near future – the need for specialized recycling facilities rises as well. The battery recycling market offers huge opportunities. Many companies […]

October 20, 2022

Kawartha Lakes will be holding battery collection days from November 14th through the 17th. Residents will be allowed to bring batteries to the curb alongside their usual recyclables. Only A, AA, AAA, C, D, 9V, button batteries, and lantern batteries […]

October 14, 2022

Electra Battery Materials Corporation (NASDAQ: ELBM) (TSXV: ELBM) (“Electra”) today announced the start of commissioning of its black mass recycling demonstration plant at its battery materials park located north of Toronto following the successful installation of material feed handling and […]

September 27, 2022

In order to build a circular economy of waste for all, we must bring a magnifying glass to every different kind of community and study the different aspects unique to their waste systems. In the United States, the Environmental Protection […]

July 20, 2022

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), the Voice of the Recycling Industry™, National Waste and Recycling Association (NWRA), and Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) issued a joint letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan citing best practices for […]

June 1, 2022

Batteries are everywhere. In our mobile phones, our notebooks, our vacuum cleaners and lawnmowers. And, of course, in more and more cars. Between 2010 and 2018, battery demand grew globally by 30% annually and reached a volume of 180 GWh […]

May 17, 2022

Li-Cycle Corp. (NYSE: LICY) (“Li-Cycle” or the “Company”), an industry leader in lithium-ion battery resource recovery and the leading lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, today announced that its previously announced Arizona Spoke facility located in Gilbert, Arizona has commenced […]

January 6, 2022

Battery Resourcers, a vertically integrated lithium-ion battery recycling and engineered materials company, today announced plans to open a commercial-scale, lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Covington, Ga. When the 154,000-square-foot facility is fully operational in August 2022, it will be North […]

November 5, 2021

PeopleForBikes, a national bicycling advocacy organization and the bicycle industry’s trade association, is teaming up with Call2Recycle, the largest, most reliable battery recycling program experts in the U.S., to establish the bicycle industry’s first industrywide electric bicycle battery recycling program […]

March 18, 2021

Researchers working on the Faraday Institution ReLiB (Recycling and Reuse of Li-ion Batteries) project are ready for new possibilities: The new facilities will allow battery scientists and engineers to speed up their research to develop safe, economic and environmentally sound […]

November 5, 2020

Barriers to entry exist in nearly every market, some more than others. For e-waste, these obstacles could be significant as the transportation of hazardous waste from one country to another presents a myriad of risks and hazards. Netherlands-based Closing the […]

July 9, 2020

In February 2019, the U.S. Department of Energy launched the ReCell Center, an advanced battery recycling R&D center, to solve the problem of how to recycle lithium-ion batteries in the United States. ReCell is a consortium consisting of Argonne National […]

December 2, 2019

When it comes to recycling batteries, many people simply don’t know what to do with them or don’t realize that they are recyclable. A recent survey, commissioned by Call2Recycle and conducted by the Harris Poll, found that about three in […]