With new energy vehicles and electronic products entering thousands of households, lithium batteries are also facing a retirement peak. However, waste lithium batteries are never "garbage" to be discarded, but "urban mines" containing strategic resources. Scientific classification and recycling are the key to unlocking their value.
Classified by Application Scenarios: Covering All Life Scenarios
- Power Lithium Batteries: The core power source for new energy vehicles and electric bicycles. The decommissioning volume is surging with the growth of the new energy vehicle ownership, making it the main force in the recycling market.
- Consumer Electronics Batteries: Supporting batteries for small devices such as mobile phones, laptops and power banks. They are small in size but large in total quantity, with recycling channels closest to daily life.
- Energy Storage Lithium Batteries: Large-scale batteries used in household energy storage and grid energy storage power stations. They have high safety requirements and mostly enter the echelon utilization link after recycling.
Classified by Treatment Methods: A Dual Path to Make the Best Use of Everything
- Echelon Utilization: Healthy batteries with remaining capacity ≥ 80% can be used in low-power scenarios such as energy storage and low-speed vehicles after testing and recombination, extending their life cycle.
- Regenerative Recycling: Batteries with severe capacity attenuation or damage can extract valuable metals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel, as well as materials such as copper, aluminum and graphite through professional processes to realize resource recycling.
Classified by Core Materials: Determining the Recycling Value Gradient
- Ternary Lithium Batteries: Containing high-priced metals such as cobalt and nickel, they have the highest recycling value and are mostly used in new energy vehicles and high-end energy storage equipment.
- Lithium Iron Phosphate Batteries: With strong safety and long service life, they are widely used in commercial vehicles and energy storage fields. The focus of recycling is on the extraction of lithium and iron.
- Cobalt Acid Lithium Batteries: The mainstream batteries for consumer electronics with high energy density. The core of recycling is scarce metal cobalt.
Small lithium batteries have a lot of knowledge in recycling. Correct classification can not only avoid environmental pollution, but also realize the recycling of scarce resources, contributing to the "dual carbon" goals. Choose formal recycling channels to let every waste lithium battery be reborn.
