Lithium-Ion Batteries CAN Be Recycled! RecycLiCo Battery Materials & Kemetco Research Tour

After they introduced themselves, they should've shown two Mexicans in Mexican hats with a battery grinder machine. And say. And this our Pedro and Paulo they grind the batteries. 😂

Wow, fantastic work again from Munro Live. Thanks very much, did not know of the history of Vancouver's miniing, research and battery research before. Yay UBC, Yay Molicell - makers of some excellent Lion cells of very high power.

Best explanation with details of direct crystal end product for immediate use with no secondary steps. Amazing and precise process related to end use for the most economical return.

Great news!! What is the actual efficiency? As in, how much target material does this process actually extract and how much is not recovered? Can this process effectively replace mining once we have enough batteries in the global market?

Great interview Sandy. They explained the complex chemistry and processes in a way I could under stand it.

I met Zarko at the Vancouver Fully Charged Trade show this weekend and he spent 15-20 minutes answering all my questions and details about how to implement with the OEM's. As he stressed this process is currently done off shore and as we build the many new battery factories it will make total logistic sense to recycle it on shore. The future looks great and keep up the interviews of new tech. Love what you do.

Wow.

Yeah they are great for sure. The kind of company you feel proud to be apart of the team and accomplish great new innovative ways forward to recycling and making a new product in the smartest of ways!

Those tiny pellets have a specific composition and structure. To recover the pellets in their active form would be quite an accomplishment as the cathodes are made by select companies that can deliver a level of performance and consistency unmatched by others. Unfortunately, the black mass has a large amount of carbon/graphite that effectively is a contaminant. Carbon anode manufacturing still prefers virgin materials. The energetics of the battery materials, including the very active electrolytes degrades with use and time.....larger amounts of energy can be stored by better means.

What a great inside look at the future of this part of electrification. Thanks for sharing!!

UBC, Lake-head, Dalhousie and Queens University are some of the leading extractive metallurgical institutions possibly in the world.

If the US and Canada is gonna compete with Chinese rare earth refining these are the type of people we need to train.

That video was incredible Sandy
Thanks very much
Only you could produce that with them
I could follow it all but don't ask me questions
Interesting what you said about the Whiz Kids at Ford

Keep em comin

awesome group and video

I've had some molicel 18650 batts many years ago which I encapsulated for use with a caving light circa 2006. I assume that's the same company. Their website says 'Maple Ridge, BC' rather than Vancouver. Ah yes and that's an area of Vancouver. 2 of those 3 packs are still going, so yeah Molicel made some decent cells.

Sounds like these folks have the brains and the braun, or should I say due diligence, to make battery recycling work, and work well! TYSM Sandy & team! ❤

I thought Akira Yoshino, Dr. Stanley Whittingham and Dr. John Goodenough developed the Chemistry for the lithium-ion batteries?

Methinks we have some people who work there in the comments....🤔

St Georges Eco Mining can recycle Lithium Ion 100% and even alkaline batteries 100%. They even capture the hydrogen off-gassing. They deserve a visit moreso than these guys

Mind boggling ! Just breath taking leading edge technology explained to a level this muppet could understand !!

this is brilliant

If the tech is so good why is their stock trading for only .40 cents?
The reason is the Management team at RecycLiCo couldn't manage an ant farm!
Their first joint venture sold out shareholders and gave their technology away.
The current management should take a permanent holiday.

@SwordFighterPKN<<<< this poster says black gold recycling is a lie.

So lets be realistic here, everything CAN be recycled, what matters is can it be done for a profit?

Looks like very hard work to get to that point with patents and then now to scale up with even more sensors and robotics.. plus training staff. Very hard work.

👍👍

Love the work but we are far away from reasonable Li-ion recycling. THIS THE NUMBER 1 PROB and MUST happen NOW! Cycle counts on cells is all that matters right now

Are LFP batteries economic to recycle?

An absolutely attitude changing informative video, thank you. 'Wizz kids' aka MBA's the killers of business and engineering.

Thanks Sandy and the RecycliCo company for a very informative video. Love that their process is based on first principles thinking to lower costs and manufacturing complexity.

Boom.. so much for the bozos talking about how hard it is to recycle structural batteries.

Pretty amazing that they can remove all those intermediate steps and just give the battery manufacturer the precursor materials they need.

Lol.. seems like they gave away the 'secret' of, for who.. when they said being located AT the 'gigafactory'.. which we know who runs those.

Just a stupid grammar note.. no such word as precisionly lol
The word he was looking for is.. precisely

Thank you for the knowledge behind the curtain.

Very misleading video. Come back when recycling is commercially viable

VERY INTERESTING.

Fascinating thanks, GREAT video.

Amazingly efficient 😊concept and beautifully refined implementation. Strong 💪 work here!

Sandy, you didn't comment about the number of Teslas you saw on Vancouver streets...

Beautiful music to this chemical engineer's ears. Maybe I'll come out of retirement. Well maybe not. I enjoy driving my Tesla too much! Just completed a 2382 mile trip through the hinterlands of AZ, UT, and CO. Averaged 243 watt-hours per mile in our '20 Model S. The Panasonic 18650 cells are still doing just fine.

What's the status for EU patented application ?

When will be the annual meeting this year ?

If you ever have the chance to visit Umicore or one of their sites across the world I would definitely recommend it. They are one of the world leaders in recycling!

How many phone batteries go to waste annually. This is the answer.

Li-Cycle.

Thanks for showing, as this was very interesting.

Hi Team, love all your videos I was asked yesterday about battery degredation and if that degredation effects that battery contents, ie lithum, ion, potassium, cobalt etc when they have been recycled. In effect, once the item are recycled into their separate basic elements, do they have the same 'capacity' once turned into a battery? TIA :)

Omalis kasi si Munro..basta sigor ado lang na kaya ng battery ng continues na charge..DC gamitin na motor my generate

Great video very informative!

Very interesting video, thank you for making this. I would be very curious in the overall efficiency of their process compared to conventional mining and processing.