Start-ups work at new ways to recycle car batteries
Companies want to avoid the toxic pollution of high-heat smelting processes used to recover lead
22 April 2021 - 16:10
Ghaziabad — A few start-up companies are trying to find a new way to recycle used car batteries, using water, chemicals and electricity to produce lead instead of the hazardous, high-heat smelting that has been identified as the world’s most polluting industry.
One of the first to bring a new recycling technology to market is ACE Green Recycling, which has developed a room temperature process that turns lead from scrap batteries into briquettes of 99.5% purity and above, Singapore-based CEO Nishchay Chadha told Reuters...
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