Lithium Australia NL Sustainability and Battery Recycling Strategy
Focusing on a cleaner, greener future
Raw material
Li chemicals
Lithium
Australia
NL
Recycling
Batteries
Although the world's love affair with portable devices is undiminished, many countries are moving away
from fossil fuels and embracing the concept of electric vehicles ('EVs') powered by battery packs ... and
as a result e-waste is accumulating. In fact, the volume of spent LIBS worldwide will grow to something like
7 million tonnes per annum ('Mtpa') within the next 20 years. To avoid the mountains of toxic waste this
could create, the recycling of spent LIBS is not just an option, it's imperative!
Most (not enough!) of the LIBS currently recycled are from electronic devices and are of the lithium cobalt
oxide (i.e. LCO) type. But with sales of EVs on the rise, the need to recycle their spent battery packs - the
dominant chemistry being nickel cobalt manganese (i.e. NCM) of the '622' type (lithium + 6 parts nickel + 2
parts cobalt + 2 parts manganese) – is becoming a matter of urgency.
The Telegraph
Britain faces
'waste battery
mountain' as
electric car use
surges
WINE
WWW
WASTE MANAGEMENT WORLD"
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The Lithium Battery
Recycling Challenge
Increasing oil prices, demand for
urban vehicles, megacities and
focus on sustainable
transportation have kickstarted a
substantial trend towards
automotive electrification such as
hybrids and electric vehicles
(EVs). Estimates suggest that by
2020, EVs are likely to account
for more than 7% of the global
transportation market.
The
Guardian
The rise of electric
cars could leave us
with a big battery
waste problem
MOTHERBOARD
VICE
Today's Electric
Car Batteries Will
Be Tomorrow's
E-Waste Crisis,
Scientists Warn
DEEP DISCHARGE
FINANCIAL TIMES
Rise of electric
cars poses
battery recycling
challenge
China's booming electric vehicle market is
about to run into a mountain of battery waste
11
August 2020
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