Battery recycling industry braced for winds of change

It's a time of change for the battery recycling industry, which has to adapt to new requirements at a technical and economic level. These challenges and more were on the minds of delegates attending the 23rd International Congress for Battery Recycling (ICBR) in Berlin in September 2018. The chairman of the ICBR's steering committee, Dr Jean-Pol Wiaux, told delegates the industry had "entered an area of 'disruption'— where progress in technology is taking place at record speeds and driving new societal attitudes". BEST's Gerry Woolf gives his take on the . . .