Manufacturers must take responsibility for the full life cycle of their products, and policymakers must act now to protect ...

A team of researchers in China has found a way to bring dead lithium-ion batteries back to life, potentially reducing both ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Agency Administrator Ken Miller says lithium batteries have caused expensive fires in their garbage haulers’ trucks. He says the batteries can also cause dangerous fires in the landfill.

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.

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 ...

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 ...