Beyond a second life, the batteries can also be recycled, with 95 per cent of the components able to be reused. That is a solution Perth-based lithium miner Neometals is pursuing, with the company building its own recycling plant in Canada. Neometals managing director Chris Reed stands and smiles with the company’s reception area in the background. Neometals managing director Chris Reed says the miner is joining the recycling game. “It’s really a cradle-to-grave solution at Mount Marion [mine], we are producing the lithium units and then recycling,” Neometals managing director Chris Reed said.
