{"id":145483,"date":"2022-09-02T13:23:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/recycling-ev-batteries-is-a-problem-but-not-as-you-think"},"modified":"2022-09-02T13:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:23:48","slug":"recycling-ev-batteries-is-a-problem-but-not-as-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/recycling-ev-batteries-is-a-problem-but-not-as-you-think","title":{"rendered":"Recycling EV batteries is a problem, but not as you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/recycling-ev-batteries-is-a-problem-but-not-as-you-think2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The global rush to recycled batteries is excellent news for automakers, however, there isn\u2019t nearly enough scrap to feed them all.<\/p>\n<p>The wave of new factories poses a significant risk for the recycling industry itself, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-09-01\/the-next-big-battery-material-squeeze-is-old-batteries\" title=\"Bloomberg reported \" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em> reported<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody is really looking at each other, and they seem to think there will be a lot of scrap and end-of-life batteries,\u201d Hans Eric Melin, the founder of a UK-based consultancy <a href=\"https:\/\/circularenergystorage.com\/events\" title=\"Circular Energy Storage(CES)\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\"><em>Circular Energy Storage(CES)<\/em><\/a>, told <em>Bloomberg<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global rush to recycled batteries is excellent news for automakers, however, there isn\u2019t nearly enough scrap to feed them all. The wave of new factories poses a significant risk for the recycling industry itself, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. \u201cNobody is really looking at each other, and they seem to think there will be a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}