A giant new battery recycling factory just opened in Ohio thanks to the Biden-Harris Administration.
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Reasons For Hope
A gigantic newly expanded battery recycling factory operated by Cirba Solutions has opened in Lancaster, Ohio (at the heart of the emerging Battery Belt!) thanks to strong support from the Biden-Harris Administration. The two newly opened production lines will be able to process used consumer batteries (and scrap from U.S. battery manufacturing plants) to produce 15,000 tons of mineral-rich metal salts, known as “black mass,” per year, which can then be used to make new batteries. Next, Cirba Solutions hopes to open an additional wing by 2026 and eventually produce enough raw material to power 250,000 new EV batteries every year.
“We’re going to create a closed-loop material processing system in Lancaster, where we can return all those elements back into the domestic supply chain.”
-David Klanecky, CEO of Cirba Solutions.
This is exactly the kind of circular economy solution that the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Battery Mineral Loop report was discussing - and it dovetails perfectly with the Biden-Harris Administration’s ongoing efforts to develop a secure American cleantech supply chain to compete with China!
“We have the opportunity to get all of these batteries, whether it is from your phone, or your laptop or your vehicle and take all that material inside, which normally we would be getting from China or other places, and re-use it…
The price of the battery is dropping as well. Cirba Solutions and what they are doing to recycle will help bring down the cost of the battery.”
-U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm at the factory’s groundbreaking in 2023
Notably, this factory is also the first-ever project receiving funds from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (passed thanks to the hard work of Kamala Harris!) to come fully online. Spectacular work - and this could be just the beginning.