Starting your car means relying on a 12-volt battery that will eventually need to be replaced. Rather than ending up in a landfill, it's important to find the best way to dispose of the battery, or ...

Global demand for lithium is rapidly increasing due to the growth of electric vehicles, with current recycling rates of lithium-ion batteries being significantly low. Recycling lithium-ion batteries ...

In honor of the National Fire Prevention Association’s (NFPA’s) annual Fire Prevention Week, taking place Oct. 5-11, Charlotte, North Carolina-based battery recycler Cirba Solutions is launching its ...

Aerial view of lithium mining pits in Atacama Salt Flat, Chile, on July 29, 2024. The minerals found in an electric-car battery often travel thousands of miles around the world before the vehicles ...

Engineers at Rice University developed a cleaner method for recycling lithium from EV batteries by recharging waste cathode materials in a compact electrochemical reactor to produce high-purity ...

Most of us have a kitchen drawer or a random tub somewhere that’s slowly filling up with dead batteries we’re not quite sure what to do with. It feels wrong to just chuck them in the kitchen bin with ...