Watercycle Technologies has secured £1 million in UK government grant funding for CAMCYCLE, a £2 million project supported by AIRTO member CPI that will demonstrate a new approach to recycling lithium-ion batteries and producing new battery materials in the UK.
The funding has been awarded through the DRIVE35 Innovation Fund: Demonstrate 2 competition, part of the UK government’s £4 billion DRIVE35 programme, delivered by the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade in partnership with the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK (APC) and Innovate UK.
CAMCYCLE aims to cut out at least three of these stages by integrating battery recycling and CAM production into a single, streamlined process. It will also remediate wastewater generated during recycling, recovering valuable minerals and feeding them back into the process rather than allowing them to go to waste.
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