✨ Holistic Insights from #FUTURE4BATT Workshop – Cross-Cutting Learnings – Towards a Circular Battery Future
Across all roundtables, several core themes emerged — each critical to Europe's circular battery ecosystem:
💎 Waste → resource: Batteries and black mass must be redefined to unlock value. Revitalise aims to achieve high-purity black mass material separation (≥97% for cathode and graphite), and hydrometallurgical processes to recover over 70% of lithium and produce battery-grade materials (Li₂CO₃, NMC salts, Fe salts, graphite) with >99% purity.
⚠️ Policy-practice gap: Regulatory ambition must be supported by coherent, enforceable mechanisms.
🔍 Data transparency via tools like the Battery Passport is foundational.
🏗️ Infrastructure must match innovation—from recycling tech, such as Revitalise pre-treatment technologies that do not require the use of hammer mills to achieve cost effective & high purity separation, to legal and logistical support.
🤝 Shared responsibility across the value chain is non-negotiable.
🧱 Eco-design & standardisation are catalysts for dismantling, reuse, and recycling.
💶 Economic signals — mandates, incentives, stable markets—are necessary to catalyse uptake.
👉 If we align innovation, infrastructure, policy, and finance, together we can turn circularity ambition into real-world impact.
👥 Call to Action - Let's expand the conversation:
Which of these challenges resonates most with your work?
What solutions—tech, policy, business—have you seen applied successfully?
Tag a colleague or project working to close the loop on battery circularity. Let’s accelerate change—together!
Universidade de Aveiro Iconiq Innovation Verkor REELEMENTS Universität Münster EURECAT University of Birmingham Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Watercycle Technologies
CTA (Corporación Tecnológica de Andalucía) BATMASS EU Project ReUse Batteries BATTERY 2030+ RENOVATE EU
