> It is hard to scale when there just aren't the incoming materials yet. There are a huge number of businesses already doing this today - there is plenty of in

> It is hard to scale when there just aren't the incoming materials yet. There are a huge number of businesses already doing this today - there is plenty of incoming materials from just old cars alone. The amount of aluminum in this stream will be increasing in the years to come however. > I think we'll see a lot more growth in the recycling of EV batteries once more of this current generation of EVs are actually sent to recycling. They're just not very old yet, so there's not large flows of recyclable materials coming in quite yet. Battery recycling is very important, and one of the obvious consequences of EVs becoming more prevalent. Several companies are already tackling this at scale though. The carbon impact of _aluminum_ recycling is much more significant than battery recycling. That's what I was referring to in my previous comment. LIBS/XRF backscattering are fairly new technologies that enable fine grained sorting of aluminum alloys which should enable much more secondary aluminum to be used for high grade alloys.