This article was first published by Aalto University, one of the RESART project partners.
As part of the Long-Term Joint EU-African Union Research and Innovation Partnership on Renewable Energy, a collaborative African European project RESTART dedicated to the implementation of a full value chain for recycling end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and photovoltaic solar panels has begun.
[…]RESTART will tackle key areas of the value chain including collection, disassembling and characterization of battery and solar panel wastes, sustainable technology development and scale-up of environmentally friendly metals recovery processes. The aim is also to develop a practical business plan and assess the ecological impacts of these technological advances, which will serve as an example of successful sustainable technology development to the larger scale via collaborative African European scientific and economic partnerships.
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