EV battery/Li-ion battery recycling

[Immortality]

Car batteries are really easy to recycle if you only care about the lead and toss the plastic cases into landfill and the acids down the drain

The fact caned tomatoes are shipped around the world rather than grown and canned locally (next to the market that consumes them) already means environment doesn’t matter, only $$ matter…

It’s just crazy to ship cans of tomatoes from Italy to Australia and probably from Australia to Italy but there is profit to be made

That's free market capitalism where the consumer must have plenty of choice all year round.

 

[chrisp]

This then begs the question if we have already have battery recycling somewhere, or if they ship them OS which seems pointless from an environmental perspective.

Bunnings send them to Envirostream https://envirostream.com.au/

 

[Immortality]

Bunnings NZ also battery collection boxes which I assume go to the same recycling center.

 

[Skylarking]

Really? I read 18000 tons pa.

Sorry missed that as I just scanned the article

18,000 ton * 907 kg/ton = 1,746,000kg processed per year

Average li car battery is 450kg (according to quick google search)
=> 3880 average li car batteries per year (80 batteries per week for a 48 week year).

Tesla’s currently producing around 4000 cars per week (and scaling up) so I guess we’ll need a lot more battery recycle places. And the recycled goop presumably still needs to be refined and made into batteries).

It’s a start but at the moment li recycling doesn’t look like it’s scaling fast enough…

 

[Skylarking]

That's free market capitalism where the consumer must have plenty of choice all year round.

But the consumer will have no choice when the earth becomes malignant to human life

 

[Immortality]

But the consumer will have no choice when the earth becomes malignant to human life

That doesn't mean **** to the must-have it now generation.

Once upon a time certain fruit and vegetables were seasonal.

 

[Skylarking]

That doesn't mean **** to the must-have it now generation.

Yeah, seen them crossing the road while their nose if stuck in their module phone… mental note, I must get a train air horn

 

[lmoengnr]

Yeah, seen them crossing the road while their nose if stuck in their module phone… mental note, I must get a train air horn

Bulk buy?

 

[Sandman]

There's a place in Melbourne run by GUD which repoposes and refurbishes EV batteries, I believe many evenually end up in energy storage for homes/business due to the less demanding cycle than an EV.

https://infinitev.au/