{"id":26091,"date":"2025-08-10T04:12:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/?p=26091"},"modified":"2026-01-05T12:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:31:18","slug":"lithium-battery-recycling-achieves-over-97-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/lithium-battery-recycling-achieves-over-97-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithium Battery Recycling Achieves Over 97% Efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Princeton NuEnergy is establishing a domestic supply chain for critical battery materials with its new facility in the U.S., which recycles old lithium batteries with an efficiency of over <strong>97%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new facility opened in South Carolina, U.S., has taken a significant step toward strengthening the critical material supply chain by recycling old lithium batteries with high efficiency. Established by <strong>Princeton NuEnergy (PNE)<\/strong>, this facility is the country&#8217;s first commercial-scale center for producing &#8220;<strong>black mass<\/strong>&#8221; and battery-grade cathode materials. Black mass refers to a special recyclable material extracted from batteries, which is concentrated with valuable metals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Over 97% Recycling Efficiency<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/indir-15.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/indir-15.webp 720w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/indir-15-300x168.webp 300w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/indir-15-150x84.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The facility recovers critical minerals locally from batteries, achieving a <strong>recycling rate of over 97%<\/strong>, which is well above industry standards. Fully permitted and compliant with all legal requirements, the facility produces high-quality battery raw materials. The company announced that the plant&#8217;s capacity will increase to <strong>15,000 tons per year<\/strong> by 2026, with the potential to scale up to 50,000 tons depending on market demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company&#8217;s developed <strong>low-temperature plasma-assisted separation (LPAS)<\/strong> process provides cathode and anode materials that can be used directly in battery manufacturing. This method <strong>reduces costs by 38%<\/strong> and lowers environmental impact by <strong>69%<\/strong> compared to traditional techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PNE aims to create a <strong>circular battery economy<\/strong> in the U.S. by combining its other investments with this new facility. Recycling raw materials can be sourced from various items, including mobile phones, computers, children&#8217;s toys, electric vehicles, and industrial energy storage systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You Might Also Like;<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princeton NuEnergy is establishing a domestic supply chain for critical battery materials with its new facility in the U.S., which recycles old lithium batteries with an efficiency of over 97%. A new facility opened in South Carolina, U.S., has taken a significant step toward strengthening the critical material supply chain by recycling old lithium batteries &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAown96uCw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[337],"class_list":["post-26091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-futurescience","tag-future-energy"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}