Recycle LiB

South Africa throws away tons of lithium-ion batteries per year. Most goes into landfill because the alternative is costly shipping to Europe or China. This is expensive because the risk of fire means that shipping is challenging, and the existing technologies for recycling are high energy consuming processes.

Revolutionizing safe storage

Cwenga Lib has patented a new process of storing batteries that detoxifies them and removes the fire risk of packing used batteries together.

Recycling locally

Our first modular recycling facility has just opened in Germiston, Gauteng where our propriety process recycles lithium-ion batteries back into the component elements- Cobalt, Nickel, Manganese, and Lithium

Safe and environmentally responsible processing

The groundbreaking process that we have developed over the last 2 years has zero heating (unlike the existing pyrometallurgical processes that require huge amounts of electricity or fuel) and uses inherently safe reagents to get the metals into solution for recovery. The separation of these metals is important in order to get them to a quality where they can re-enter the market as raw materials- this is done with purely food grade materials so if the final use is in industrial processes such as catalysts, or in agriculture as a nutritional supplement, we have confidence in its final quality.

Partnership

We are looking for more partnerships with collectors of batteries, shredded material, and black mass.

We are also looking for people who are producing batteries locally that would like a local source of raw battery material from recycled sources to line up with the EU regulation for minimum 16% recycled Cobalt