American Battery Technology Company signed a bulk offtake agreement with a North American company for recycled material from its lithium-ion battery recycling facility. ABTC manufactures high nickel- and cobalt-content recycled black mass. 

Call2Recycle and battery recycler EVSX launched Ontario’s newest battery processing facility in Thorold. The new facility has a processing capacity of 4,200 tons of alkaline batteries per year, achieving an 87.7% ratio of battery components effectively recycled.

Cartoon Network Africa and South Africa’s E-Waste Recycling Authority have partnered to use characters and storytelling to educate children about how recycling can be a solution to the problems e-scrap creates.