'Urban mining is essential': Veolia plots EV battery recycling plant for the West Midlands

Cecilia Keating
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'Urban mining is essential': Veolia plots EV battery recycling plant for the West Midlands

Facility will be able to treat a sizeable tranche of the UK’s end-of-life vehicles when it comes online in 2024, according to firm

Resource management company Veolia has unveiled plans to build a new recycling plant in the West Midlands that it claims will be capable of processing a fifth of the UK's end-of-life electric vehicle (EV)...

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