https://it-news.uk/tags/recycling/ Recent content in Recycling on IT News Hugo en-us Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/catl-bmw-google-battery-circular-economy-alliance/ Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/catl-bmw-google-battery-circular-economy-alliance/ <p>There&rsquo;s a quiet tension at the heart of the electric vehicle boom. Automakers keep selling more EVs, but nobody has fully figured out what to do with the batteries when they die. A new alliance — announced during London Climate Action Week — is the most serious attempt yet to fix that.</p> <p>The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, alongside CATL, BMW, Renault, Volvo, Google, and Xiaomi, has launched the Global Energy Circular Economy Alliance. Their first order of business: developing a set of Battery Recyclable Design Guidelines that will define how batteries should be built from the ground up with their end-of-life — disassembly, repair, and material recovery — already factored in.</p>