Recycled Batteries from 120 Million Units of Laptops, Smartphones, and Tablets
SK ecoplant's recycling specialist subsidiary TES-AMM (TES) has surpassed 6,000 tons in cumulative processed waste battery volume.
According to SK ecoplant on the 16th, an analysis of the lithium battery processing volume from mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops by its subsidiary TES revealed that the recycling volume has exceeded 6,000 tons. Typically, the weight of batteries installed in mobile devices like smartphones and tablets is around 50g. Simply calculated, TES's mobile device recycling volume amounts to 120 million units.
TES currently operates waste battery recycling facilities in Singapore, Shanghai in China, and Grenoble in France. The electric vehicle waste battery processing facilities being constructed in Rotterdam, one of Europe's largest ports in the Netherlands, and Yancheng, a key region for the battery industry in China, are also entering the final stages of completion.
In particular, TES is recognized as a company equipped with solutions covering all stages of the waste battery recycling process, from waste battery collection to the establishment of energy storage systems (ESS) utilizing waste batteries, and rare metal extraction. Based on its experience in electronic and electrical waste (E-waste) recycling, TES has expanded into 23 countries.
Park Kyung-il, President of SK ecoplant, stated, "SK ecoplant and its subsidiary TES have established regional bases in key battery industry hubs and major regions with high electric vehicle adoption in North America, Europe, and Asia, securing capabilities to respond to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the European Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA)." He added, "Our ultimate goal is to realize a resource circulation economy through the completion of a closed-loop system that reinserts rare metals recovered from waste batteries back into battery manufacturing."
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