Op-ed: Ensuring the mining industry goes full circle: recycling critical minerals

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Today's energy transition is moving away from a linear economy towards a circular economy

Critical minerals are vital components of many of the technologies essential to the energy transition including in batteries for energy storage and in electric vehicles.

The focus on the carbon footprint of batteries alongside a growing number of other regulatory and disclosure requirements is likely to significantly influence development of recycling technology.Battery recycling technologiesWhilst some recycling techniques are well-established, such as those for lead-acid batteries, many critical mineral recycling methods, such as for Lithium-ion batteries are still a work in progress and subject to improvement and refinement.

 

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