How electric vehicles are sparking a battery recycling revolution
WATCH: How battery recycling could power our EV futureHard numbers are difficult to come by, but in Canada, the U.S., and many European countries, it’s estimated that onlyof lithium-ion batteries find their way to a recycling facility when they die. Instead, they sit forgotten in cupboards or drawers or worse, end up in landfills.
“I think of it as urban mining,” says Ajay Kochhar, co-founder and CEO of Li-Cycle, a Canadian battery recycler that wants to make sure the precious minerals in EV batteries don’t go to waste.
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