Critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt are essential to power the technologies that can reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Yet growing demand for these minerals, combined with supply chain concerns, could put our clean energy future at risk. Recycling could offer a sustainable pathway to meet rising demand for these minerals. By reclaiming critical minerals from e-waste and […]
Small cell or button cell batteries power our remotes, watches, and medical devices like hearing aids. But knowing how to recycle them is not easy. The rules keep changing and the guidance is different depending on where you live. To help make it a bit easier, we put together a list of companies that offer mail-in programs for recycling household […]
The rise of electric vehicles comes with hard choices. The availability of cobalt and lithium needed to make batteries, for example, may be so limited that we must begin new mining projects to make enough batteries for the EV fleet of the future. We talk with Trent Mell, CEO of Electra Battery Materials, whose goal is to make North American […]
Rayansh Bhavit is a member of Edison, N.J.-based RecycleMyBattery.org, a youth-led program that has collected 150,000+ batteries for recycling. Rayansh recently contributed an Earth911 article about the organization’s National Battery Day activities to encourage people to recycle batteries on February 18th. He and the 150 kids who’ve participated in RecyleMyBattery have collected more than 150,000 batteries of various sizes, which […]
Rayansh Bhavit decided to be an environmentalist in the second grade. He started helping run a network of battery recycling drop-boxes that have recovered almost 150,000 batteries since 2019 through RecycleMyBattery.org, a group of more than 150 kids. The Edison, New Jersey, group, which is sponsored by Call2Recycle.org, was founded by Nihal Tammana in 2019. They’ve placed bins in local […]