ReCell In The News 2021
| November 15, 2021 Argonne Scientists Lead Effort to Improve Economics of Recycling Chicago Tonight/WTTW News Monday is America Recycles Day, but the reality is that America doesn’t recycle nearly enough – reusing only around a third of all the trash it creates. That has prompted the Environmental Protection Agency to announce a National Recycling Strategy. |
| October 3, 2021 Breakthrough Research Makes Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries More Economical California News Time Lithium-ion batteries are the current and future engine of our technology. They power portable electronic devices such as smartphones, laptops and electric vehicles (EVs), which are becoming more popular. However, the increasing use of lithium-ion batteries, especially in automobiles, outweighs the technology for recycling them. Scientists at the ReCell Center, now the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, the first advanced battery recycling research and development center in the United States, remove one of the biggest obstacles to manufacturing. I made a very important discovery. Recycling lithium-ion batteries is economically feasible. |
| October 2, 2021 Tribes and environmental groups ask feds to favor metal recycling over new mines The Arizona Republic/azcentral.com A coalition of tribes and environmental groups asked the U.S. Department of the Interior to create new, stricter hard rock mining rules and to prioritize metal and rare earth recycling over mining. |
| January 21, 2021 Old EV Batteries Look Like a Gold Mine for Dogged Entrepreneurs Bloomberg Dismantling them to recover cobalt, lithium, and nickel could limit the environmental impact of car manufacturing. But for now it’s still a money-losing endeavor. |
