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Wolverhampton industrial-scale battery recycling plant opens
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2023 9:46 pm
by smegal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-b ... 091213.amp
Recyclus, which runs the £10m facility in Wolverhampton, said it expected 8,300 tonnes of lithium-ion batteries would be processed in the first year.
It had secured an Environment Agency permit allowing the company to process up to 22,000 tonnes a year, the firm said.
Re: Wolverhampton industrial-scale battery recycling plant opens
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 12:27 pm
by AE-NMidlands
Good news,
Critical materials research fellow Dr Gavin Harper said "every piece of the jigsaw that we see being built in the UK is certainly very welcome news". However, he added it was important to look "at the overall picture and the bits that we're missing".
Dr Harper, from the University of Birmingham, stated: "If we can get all of those bits of the jigsaw together, then the UK could certainly benefit from a thriving battery industry. "But at the moment we're lagging behind in the race, relative to the US and Europe and certainly China."
but I wonder which bits he is referring to?
Re: Wolverhampton industrial-scale battery recycling plant opens
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 12:54 pm
by Swwils
The UK famously having an abundance of the raw materials required for batteries.
Re: Wolverhampton industrial-scale battery recycling plant opens
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2023 5:34 pm
by dan_b
Well they could make a start with all of the discarded "single use vapes" that are being dumped left right and centre at the moment, each one containing a lithium ion battery!
Swwils wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2023 12:54 pm
The UK famously having an abundance of the raw materials required for batteries.
Re: Wolverhampton industrial-scale battery recycling plant opens
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2023 5:44 pm
by Krill
Re: Wolverhampton industrial-scale battery recycling plant opens
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2023 7:24 pm
by Mr Gus
In a country that imports lots of schmutter, the batteries have been gathering for years, decades even..
Blinkers off, & take a look around, we don't even need to mine it in order to recycle it, it is already abundant via accumulation, question is how market competitive the french partner funded uk company will be.