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Batteries: Recycling

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of recycling lithium iron phosphate batteries.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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Answering body: Department for Business and Trade
Tabled: 8 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 13 Jan 2025
Answer: 16 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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8 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of recycling lithium iron phosphate batteries.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
The UK currently has an emerging capacity to recycle lithium-ion batteries, with most EV batteries being dismantled and shipped to Europe. Recyclus Group, based in Wolverhampton, is the country's first and only industrial-scale recycling facility. It is l...

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