Lithium-ion battery recycling activity could increase to 2.6 million units between now and 2030, and could return thousands of tonnes of key raw materials to the battery supply chain, delegates heard at Fastmarkets' latest Lithium Supply & Markets conference.
A total of 46,300 tonnes per year of cobalt, 40,000 tpy of lithium, 27,000 tpy of manganese and 125,000 tpy of nickel could be efficiently recycled to a quality high enough that the materials could be re-used in battery cells, Ajay Kochhar, president and chief executive officer of Li-Cycle, said during the online event held October 26-28."We see a robust pull for nickel sulfate, cobalt sulfate, lithium...