Lightweight, powerful lithium-ion batteries are crucial for the transition to electric vehicles, and global demand for lithium is set to grow rapidly over the next 25 years. A new analysis looks at ...

Speakers at a recent webinar hosted by the Solid Waste Association of North America and the National Stewardship Action ...

New research suggests fracking waste could contain huge amounts of lithium, a main ingredient in batteries. But fracking will never be part of a clean energy future. New research suggests fracking ...

IGO’s primary asset is a noncontrolling 25% stake in the Greenbushes mine, the world’s largest and lowest-cost hard rock lithium operation ... effluent and waste. Mining leaves a significant ...

Global e-waste has reached record levels, containing valuable metals like lithium, and is projected to increase dramatically by 2030, highlighting the need for improved recycling methods.

Those single use vapes are so wasteful. No surprise they are causing other issues. At this point I would like to see a regulation that any device with a battery has to be easily a ...

the researchers submerged the battery waste material in the solvent and blasted it with microwave radiation. "This allowed us to leach lithium selectively over other metals," Bhattacharyya said.

Some upcoming battery projects are taking these conventional approaches to waste management. The chemical firm Albemarle hopes to sell 200,000 t of sodium sulfate from a lithium refinery it’s ...

Australia produces about 3300 tonnes of lithium-ion battery waste each year, which has caused more than 10,000 fires annually in waste management facilities and trucks alone. The alarming figures ...

Massachusetts fire officials are reminding residents of ways to properly dispose of lithium-ion batteries after a recycling ...