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#BurlingtonVT startup #NthCycle scores billion-dollar metal #recycling deal

By Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff, March 17, 2026

"Both Nth Cycle and Ascend have developed water-based technologies to extract metals by reprocessing 'black mass,' the ground-up remnants of worn-out #lithiumIon batteries. They can also use the leftover scrap generated by battery manufacturers. Both companies claim that their technologies can capture these metals while generating far less #ToxicWaste than other recycling methods."

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Lithium recycler Nth Cycle turning trash into treasure

Nth Cycle has struck a deal with Singapore-based metals trading company Trafigura to deliver $1.1 billion in recycled nickel and lithium over the next decade.

The Boston Globe