This article appeared in the March 2020 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. With the rapid growth in electric vehicle sales across the world, recycling stakeholders are paying considerable attention to the management of end-of-life batteries from these cars and trucks. Batteries from electric vehicles (EVs) that have reached end of life are now beginning to...

This article originally appeared in the Winter 2019-2020 issue of E-Scrap News. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   With the rapid growth in electric vehicle sales across the world, recycling stakeholders are paying considerable attention to the management of end-of-life batteries from these cars and trucks. Batteries from electric vehicles (EVs) that have reached end of life are...

This story originally appeared in the February 2016 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. In 2010, the City of Toronto approached me with a query. Recycling tons were down, and organics tons were down, but garbage tons were also down, meaning the falling numbers couldn’t be simply attributed to residents tossing recoverable materials in...