The FREE4LIB project worked on developing technologies for recycling end-of-life lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) to recover valuable materials and improve the supply of secondary resources at the EU level. The project also focused on re-using metals and polymers and developing a Battery Passport methodology for process traceability. Our team, consisting of 22 partners from 7 countries, has been collaborating for four years to achieve our objectives. Now that our project is officially over, this website is a final recap of our achievements and findings.
As vast amounts of electrical vehicles and stationary battery waste will emerge in the next years and considering that reliable and unhindered access to certain raw materials is a growing concern within the EU and across the globe, recycling would be the answer.
The recovery of lithium and other key materials is a complicated process that the EU-funded FREE4LIB project aims to simplify.
