Big Battery Project Aims to Tackle E-Waste

SEATTLE (Waste 360): An electronic waste innovator’s latest endeavor, which is called BigBattery, aims to tackle what could become one of the “largest electronic waste challenges of the 21st century,” Gizmodo reports.

According to the report, Eric Lundgren’s BigBattery project buys discarded lithium-ion batteries that were built to power electric cars, buses and scooters and recycles the parts into new batteries. The goal is to turn discarded batteries into new power sources for home solar arrays and to help stabilize electrical grids. The project also aims to help mitigate the toxic battery waste from tens of millions of electric vehicles that will be produced over the next decade.

Courtesy: www.waste360.com