It looks like JB Straubel's Redwood Materials recycling startup will have some competition. Though I'm sure they'll eventually be plenty of batteries to recycle and plenty of demand for materials for both.

We've also got LiCycle, Northvolt, CATL and Battery Resourcers in the battery recycling game. It's all good.

Li-Cycle has it's earnings call on March 3rd and I'm curious to see how ahead of the competition they are.
But in reality who cares since every single tiny battery Needs to be recycled to limit as much mining and energy demand as possible.

I was thinking about those all tiny gadget lithium batteries just today. Now that we're switching to battery-powered electric transportation, it's easier than in the past to deal with the small stuff. From a business perspective, with all those big EV packs now consistently showing up at their facilities, the overall economies of scale are improving for these recycling operations.

Small gadget batteries also tend to be exclusively ternary (ie: nickel, manganese and cobalt anode,) so there's a lot of good raw materials there beyond lithium. Also, it was only a few years ago that the amount of materials battery recycling scientists said they could be extract from an old lithium ion cell was under 90%. Now it's well above that.

Be some good news for Hamilton, eh?

You don't want to drink the dollar beer. They taste worst than American beer.

"Stelco will be using proprietary technology from a joint venture of German and Australian metal companies Primobius GmbH and Neometels Ltd. "

OK, that is not correct. The Australian Neometels Ltd and the German SMS group GmbH have formed the joint venture Primobius GmbH.

https://www.primobius.com/