As the electric vehicle market expands, so is a new North American battery-recycling industry.
Its aim: to clean up the battery business and help EVs live up to their promise of reducing global carbon emissions.
"There's no difference between the materials we produce and what the mining industry produces," said Tim Johnston, co-founder and chairman of Toronto-based Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. "It's just really about how much can you actually recover practically from that battery at the end of its life."