Battery knowledge · Recycling and end of life
Reverse logistics
Collecting end-of-life and faulty batteries and bringing them to a sorting or recycling site: take-back points, transport as dangerous goods, storage and documentation. For large packs it is often the single biggest cost of recycling.
- Also called
- battery collection, take-back
Example
Recycling and end of life: an example situation
High mass recovery alone does not establish battery-grade purity or refining energy demand.
Read Reverse logistics alongside Battery triage in this context. Deciding what a returned battery is good for — repair, reuse, repurposing or recycling — from its history, a visual and electrical inspection and a quick state-of-health measurement. Fast, reliable triage is what makes second life economic.
Use in Lemonergy
Distinguish recovered material from a qualified product.
This is a reference concept. No executable Lemonergy block has been verified for this term.
References & further reading
Further reading on this topic
These sources provide broader context; they are not presented as citations for every statement in this entry.
- Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Topic background · Battery construction, recycling routes and U.S. waste-management context.
- Recycling lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles
Gavin Harper et al. · Nature · 2019
Topic background · Reuse, disassembly and mechanical, hydro-, pyro- and direct recycling routes.