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Green Li-ion starts up battery recycling plant

by Matt Blois
April 18, 2024 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 102, Issue 12

 

A gloved hand holding a sample of brown powder.
Credit: Green Li-Ion
Green Li-ion extracts metals from recycled batteries.

Green Li-ion has started up a battery recycling plant in Atoka, Oklahoma. The facility uses a hydrometallurgical process to extract metals from black mass, a powder made by pulverizing spent batteries. The plant will be able to produce 600–1,100 metric tons of precursors for battery cathodes per year. The company plans to expand capacity over the next year. Green Li-ion’s technology can extract metals from lithium iron phosphate batteries, which some recyclers don’t process because they don’t contain nickel or cobalt.

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