Mercedes-Benz has opened a new battery recycling plant in Kuppenheim, Germany that uses a mechanical-hydrometallurgical process to recover materials for new electric vehicle batteries.
As Table 1 shows, 3.2 million tonnes of packaging was put into recycling bins, while 2.3 million ended up in residual, or ‘black’ bins, and 70,000 tonnes were mistakenly put into food waste. This ...