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Is it possible to recycle Lithium batteries to recover the metals in them? That should be better for the environment and the metal source does not diminish.
by acd 7y ago
Is it possible to recycle Lithium batteries to recover the metals in them? That should be better for the environment
and the metal source does not diminish.
- jillesvangurp 7y agoYes. This is done routinely for laptop and phone batteries. I googled some numbers for you: https://recyclinginternational.com/batteries/the-unknown-success-of-lithium-ion-battery-recycling/26899/ https://recyclinginternational.com/batteries/the-unknown-suc... Apparently close to 100K tonne of lithium batteries were recycled last year which amounts to about half of the volume of batteries that should have reached their end of life around that time. Not very surprising as the metal is valuable and the recycling process is fairly straightforward. Apparently, recycled lithium has some nice properties that results in slightly better batteries even. I'd expect that with car batteries, recycling will be very big business. Dumping hundreds of kilos of valuable materials in a land fill is not going to be a thing. They recycle pretty much all of the steel in cars as well.
- IndrekR 7y ago> Apparently, recycled lithium has some nice properties that results in slightly better batteries even. What are those?