Recycling Alkaline Batteries Into Micronutrient Fertilizer: RENUTRI

Programme(s)
H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies

Topic(s): EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 - SME instrument

Call for proposal: H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1

Funding Scheme: SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1

Grant agreement ID: 827310

Objective
The majority of alkaline battery recycling plants are working at maximum capacity and cannot cope with increasing demand. Safety issues, vast energy consumption and high process temperatures make smelting plants a dangerous and outdated technology. Battery manufacturers have produced and distributed over 10 billion alkaline batteries worldwide and the amount of used batteries increases at six percent annually. Many countries are unable to keep up with the environmental impacts. Fifty-one percent of global agricultural land and thus food plants globally suffer from micronutrient deficiency. Tracegrow introduces new recycling capabilities for alkaline battery and an innovative end product—micronutrient fertilizer. The proposed feasibility study enhances the company’s potential for international expansion and capability to create a new niche market in recycling used minerals into ecological soil micronutrients.