Engineering
Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries to Recover Cobalt and Lithium
Quick fact
Recycling a kilogram of lithium-ion battery cathodes can recover approximately 0.5 kg of cobalt and 0.15 kg of lithium, enough to offset the environmental impact of mining new metals by up to 60%.
Why this is interesting
You probably know that your phone battery is recyclable, but did you know that without recycling, we might run out of cobalt and lithium in a few decades?