spend supporters of schultz, the social democrats, very, there's not enough time to catch up with the competition. you're watching the deputy and use uh stay with us here on the channel off of the break. ah series plan . it's a looks at why it's so hard to recycle electric called batteries. there's always one use on the website by from the c w. this is ebony also is available to them and it has never been some to imagine that you're eating a hamburger. and as you're biting into this juicy bird or your dining companion says to you, actually the hamburger is not made from cows. it's made from golden retrievers. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 in meeting cultures around the world, people learn to classify small handful of animals with edible and all the rest of

the classify as disgusting. w series about our complex relationship with them and also need to be watching. now on youtube dw documentary, this little part of good was once an electric. com. that's where you can afford, when all this the know you have all the good stuff, cobalt nickel, mangan, these and lift him in here. and the idea is to turn these raw materials into a new venture where you get companies promise they can make this work recovering more than 90 percent of materials from all to lithium ion batteries and recycling them into new ones. and that's great news because we have more and more electric cost hitting the streets. so we need more and more batteries. and so those we need more and more resources. and recycling is better than mining new materials and

throwing them away. but how does it work? what exactly, and does it work at scale? to find out, we initially hoped to fill them with a beth resort and company in europe, but apart from releasing promo for this like this, the industry seems pretty secretive. thankfully the rest of his are much more open, which is why we came to the same class to hear the focus is on mental recovery, just the perfect fit for us. but before we go in, i'll give you a quick rundown of how a car battery turns into a small piece of this. there are several ways, but this is one of them. first, the battery arrives at a recycling facility and gets discharged after it's taken apart. this is done by hand, which means it's expensive, but we'll get to that later. the battery then gets shredded the liquid pods get expected and different methods of grinding and sifting. leave you with these base

materials, metals from the battery, housing, plastic and the bits of aluminum and copper. but the stuff that everybody is after is this black mass. this contains all the valuable materials, like lithium coal, both nickel and manganese, but also graphite. and that's why it's black, and today we're going to get all of them out of that, but that's not my job. but there's, this is new. come to a doctor research i add to close. todd and his chemical lab technician might, could come in at the university as part of a larger research group that is trying to figure out how to do this on a larger scale. and by the way, this is what the end goal of this process is supposed to look like. same metal foil, ready to go into a battery again. so while we're doing now with of light loss, so now we're going into the leasing operation with the blackness. so we're bringing all the valuable metals we have on the black most into solution. and the metal way

off today is cold to bring that out. mike is using so far it as of as a solvent. pretty nasty stuff. if it would touch, i was given, it would instantly costs a v, a buttons. we're using a process called hydro metallurgical recycling. it's a low temperature process, but only use a small amounts of energy compared to other that's where your 2nd method. so for it as it seems, a toxic tense, the bend to lights up, but this entire process is perfect. so getting rid of impurities that are still in the black box. after all, the shredding and sifting mainly aluminum and copper as a 2nd step, the black mas also gets filtered. lucas best throughout the entire recycling process, they are able to remove 95 percent of impurities on a scale, a little bit bigger. the whole process looks like this, massive pulse of solvent in which black mosque is process. so from what we're seeing here, the exhaust gas a seems to be

a bit of an issue was that we're dealing with there. we're having kind of kind of and small issue of this. so depending on the, so we'll see all leasing the for example, in our case. so for adults, you might have some evolution of h to s. so, and maybe also some if age of formation. so this was kind of problematic and definitely something you need to look into when you're going to apply. and we also have the assets, the solven's, and the leads and stuff like that. and there's also not that great for the environment. is there a way to approach it differently actually there at the moment upcoming researches for organic us with some of the reading assets which are also very buyer compet table of the environment. so normally you, though quite homeless, but the research is in a way, um, way not that and finds sort of stadium method. and if you don't work cautiously, you get headlines like this. some gill high techs, factory and hungry, recorded high levels of cancer, causing heavy metals in the, or had difficulties filtering its exhaust gases by and by mantle benefits of

recycling. so many things to consider, and we're not even halfway done. our black mazda is now edits to a nother sullivan that will help bring out the coal, both in this chemical cocktail. and it's pretty colorful from greenish to dark blue . it's like so blue, it almost looks like ink it could like right that. busy and it's this dark blue pod actually that's the cold sticks to to get a higher concentration of cobalt. we need to do another round of this. this time we're going from blue to red. now that's the color change. so now the cobalt is in the dock, a red as pa spot to be able to use the metal in new batteries. you of course need to get it out of the sullivan. you can do that by using it up as you would at industry scales or a little quick kind of small left like this was yet another solvent. i'm really can

see the crystals a lots here that even accumulates that the bottom like how much cobalt is that now from the bite mass isn't here. well actually of, of this technique we are able to recover more than 99 percent of the cold. what are the biggest challenges in ops getting these process is what makes it so hot? you know, of course the, you, it, we also run the run through the problem that and let scale. we are only doing this invest, explain when so step by step, very calm and study, but an industry you want to and money so you have them, you are having a continuous process and handling and continuous process of all the impurities and all the process steps. and small things you need to consider. it's kind of challenging. yes. that's what other research as say, as well recovering more than 90 percent of materials is possible. but this requires optimal conditions which you don't always find in the real world. if the recovery rates drop, the business case becomes even more difficult and that's what it comes down to with recycling. one thing is to make it work technologically. a completely different

thing is to make money from it. and that's where the industry faces it's biggest challenges. remember how i said that batteries have to be taken apart by um, that's because every manufacturer boots them a little bit differently. this means machines con, kindly do all of the job and that drives up costs. so does the most expensive part of the process? the hydra metallurgical recycling and there is another factor that makes it hard to turn a profit the more difficult forward comes in from one by $2.00 to $2.00 in the market . because in the, in the middle of market, you have a lot of speculation and you can see, for instance, this in price is one year back. i don't know the exact number by heart, but one year back, i think it was a times higher 10 times higher than to that crazy prices. this is un quotes from the ss they just opened up that prototype like most refining plant in germany. this yeah. and plan to scale out the technology further one or $2.00 to $2.00 in the

market. this is a stress to everybody, to mines who cycles. right? and all the prices are by no. which is a challenge for everybody who wants to reduce investment. basically if price is a high recyclers make more money, but the question is, how much consulting firm mackenzie expects recyclers to make around $800.00 to $1600.00 per ton of tax rate. it's really about how much do you pay when you acquire the material. this is hands, eric melanie. he's been analyzing the end of last batch remarket for yes. so if you get material for free, and then you also say then sell it to market price. you want to use it to make a lot of money and you will most probably make more than many mining operations. but if your site does what need to pay for the batteries, the economics get shaky. this could mean recycling is more expensive than just

mining new materials. and this isn't the only issue for commercial size pond. another challenge, other materials used in the battery itself. it could be a whole bunch of combinations, lithium, ion phosphate, lithium, manganese oxide, lithium, the cold, cold, many um, or lithium, nicole manganese cold. and the last one even comes in different compositions. 121-216-2222 or aids. 2121, and it's the wild west out there when it comes to bed 3 manufacturing, which makes it more difficult to build, tailored commercial plots. you have to build them for the largest possible amount of the individual material. like, because i think of a long one, for instance, the race to, to the other components. you have to have a really huge make a separate. whereas if you're having 111, you have to be able to precipitate

a lot of cool. but then you have to have a use separate of course, you have to be pretty robust and that's, of course, driving the costs, which means that some other nice is from some university's predicted costs up associates probably be wrong because every time i go to the bottom line is in the real world, recycling is much, much harder then on paper a. another problem for recycling batteries doesn't have anything to do with the recycling process itself. but with the missing feedstock, electric car batteries last longer than previously thought. busy and off so that they get used for all kinds of other things like storing renewable energy, which means that um, does money batteries to be recycled on a large scale recycling batteries. there's no issue at all. 99 percent colewell. it's because it's insane. but on a commercial scale, not so much info that for example, what are we going to do with

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