UK set for industrial scale battery recycling

Recyclus Group is 49 per cent owned by Technology Minerals (TM), a London-based company aiming by to increase its lead-acid battery recycling capability to 16,000 tonnes per annum by 2022, and 5,000 tonnes per annum for lithium-ion batteries in the same time frame.

“The focus for our recycling operation longer term is on the UK and European markets with a view to grow to 20,000 tonnes of lithium-ion batteries, and 60,000 tonnes of lead-acid batteries respectively per annum over the next decade,” said TM executive chairman Robin Brundle.

TM is a majority shareholder across a portfolio of battery metal projects, stating that its mission is to ‘sustainably extract the raw materials required for Li-ion battery cathodes, and help to recycle spent Li-ion batteries for reuse by battery manufacturers.’ To help deliver this circular economy vision, TM aims to build one recycling plant a year for the next six years.