[caption id="attachment_16757" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Elemental Holding Group owns companies that recycle consumer electronics, appliances, printed circuit boards, catalyst converters and non-ferrous metals. | fru fru / Shutterstock[/caption]
A global company that owns Euro
[caption id="attachment_16670" align="aligncenter" width="900"]A materials separation module used for demonstrations at Argonne National Laboratory, located outside of Chicago. | Courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory[/caption]
Scientists at a U.S.
[caption id="attachment_16654" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Li-Cycle's Alabama facility has an initial planned capacity of about 5,500 short tons of lithium-ion batteries per year. | Sergii Chernov / Shutterstock[/caption]
Li-Cycle will site a lithium-ion battery facility in
[caption id="attachment_16595" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Aluminum is one of the metals e-scrap companies recover from electronics, in addition to precious metals, copper and steel. | ST House Studio / Shutterstock[/caption]
Aluminum prices have climbed to their highest levels in ov
Redwood Materials, a growing Nevada-based battery recycling firm that recently partnered with an e-scrap processor, received more than $700 million in funding from various financing organizations.
[caption id="attachment_8843" align="aligncenter" width="1080"]A White House report emphasizes the importance of recycling in supplying the country with rare earth elements. | kazu326 / Shutterstock[/caption]
The federal government should encourage design for recyclability in consumer electronics and support technologies
Leaders at refiners and smelters explain the market trends they are seeing around the metals recovered from scrap electronics and point out some emerging opportunities.
[caption id="attachment_15889" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Industry analysts recently offered their insights on copper markets.| Flegere / Shutterstock[/caption]
The historically high prices for copper could elevate even higher in coming years because of strong demand for manufacturing, according to analysts.
As renewable energy trends push more solar modules into the market, processors are developing strategies and SERI is considering adding the material to R2 guidance.