RENUTRI | RECYCLING ALKALINE BATTERIES INTO MICRONUTRIENT FERTILIZER

Summary
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 Safety issues, vast energy consumption and high process temperatures make smelting plants a dangerous and outdated technology.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.
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Web resources: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/827310
Start date: 01-09-2018
End date: 30-11-2018
Total budget - Public funding: 71 429,00 Euro - 50 000,00 Euro
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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 Safety issues, vast energy consumption and high process temperatures make smelting plants a dangerous and outdated technology.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.

Status

CLOSED

Call topic

EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020

Update Date

27-10-2022
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Horizon 2020
H2020-EU.2. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP
H2020-EU.2.1. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
H2020-EU.2.1.0. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Cross-cutting calls
H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1
H2020-EU.2.3. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
H2020-EU.2.3.0. INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs - Cross-cutting calls
H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1
H2020-EU.3. SOCIETAL CHALLENGES
H2020-EU.3.0. Cross-cutting call topics
H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1