Start-ups aim to change car battery recycling including in Malaysia

Workers dismantle batteries to obtain lead from them at ACE Green recycling Inc in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, February 15, 2021.- Reuters

GHAZIABAD, India: A handful of startups are trying to find a new way to recycle used car batteries, using water, chemicals and electricity to produce lead instead of the hazardous, high-heat smelting that has been identified as the world's most polluting industry.

One of the first to bring a new recycling technology to market is ACE Green Recycling Inc, which has developed a room-temperature process that turns lead from scrap batteries into briquettes of 99.5% purity and above, its Singapore-based CEO Nishchay Chadha told Reuters.