14 Jul 2023

Recovering High-tech Metals from Electronic Waste: Audi Environmental Foundation Funds Research into Recycling Process

[gallery columns="1" size="full" link="file" ids="87906"] Scalable recycling process for strategic metals will facilitate recoveryMining project at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology focuses on developing a versatile “tweezer technology” for the selective extraction of indium, gallium, and tin Rüdiger Recknagel, Director of the Audi Environmental Foundation: “The project is an important contribution to establishing more resource cycles” [source: Audi AG] The Audi ...
13 Jul 2022

Volkswagen Group of America and Redwood Materials to Create Supply Chain for EV Battery Recycling

Our take: One of the most common critiques and concerns surrounding the oncoming shift to electromobility is consideration of end-of-lifecycle batteries and whether or not this means greater waste or savings through efficiencies realized in recycling and re-use. Volkswagen Group of America, including Audi, have announced a big step today in their maneuver to establish a recycling program domestically here in the USA to set in place a solution ahead of the arrival of a considerably wider mix...