Tesla co-founder and board member J.B. Straubel’s Redwood Supplies is ramping its efforts to recycle batteries after accidents and pure disasters. The battery recycling startup posted about its initiatives in a weblog put up on its official web site.
As per Redwood Supplies in its weblog put up, it companions with native and nationwide entities to soundly and swiftly get well any lithium-ion batteries throughout emergency response conditions. This was the case throughout an accident on the I-15, when a truck that was transporting lithium-ion batteries overturned.
Stories then said that the fabric contained in the truck’s storage container went thermal and caught hearth, ensuing within the part of the freeway being closed for nearly two days. Redwood famous that following the I-15 incident, it labored alongside contaminated materials cleanup knowledgeable Graymar Environmental to assist clear up the location. Redwood was in a position to obtain the container of batteries and get well and recycle all of the lithium-ion batteries concerned within the incident.
General, Redwood Supplies was in a position to obtain 70,000 kilos of battery supplies from the I-15 incident. This quantity is anticipated to be sufficient to remake about 70 electrical automobiles.
Redwood Supplies additionally shared some insights from its experiences following the Maui wildfires. On the time, the battery recycling startup labored with the Environmental Safety Company (EPA) to gather, transport, and handle all of the broken lithium batteries from Lahaina.
“This was an unprecedented operation the place we have been in a position to get well tens of hundreds of kilos of lithium-ion batteries starting from residential stationary storage techniques, golf carts, and electrical automobiles. These batteries have been safely transported to our Nevada facility and have since been recycled with the recovered nickel, cobalt, copper, and lithium returned again to the provide chain,” Redwood Supplies wrote in its put up.
Learn Redwood Supplies’ full put up about its broken battery recycling processes right here.
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