Sorting is the slowest stage of our process and the one we are least willing to shorten. Every cell passes a human check and an automated check before it reaches size reduction.
The first pass is visual. Operators pull anything that is obviously not alkaline, along with anything swollen, leaking or physically damaged, before the stream moves on.
Collection bins out in the world are rarely as clean as the label on the front suggests. A mixed bin is normal, not a failure, and we would rather catch it here.
The second pass is an automated x ray based sorting system that identifies cell chemistry as material passes. It catches what the eye cannot: cells in sleeves, cells in the wrong housing, and chemistries that look identical from outside.
A single lithium cell in a shredder is a fire. Two passes cost us time. One pass could cost us the plant.
You do not need to sort to the standard we sort to. You do need to keep the chemistries we cannot process out of the load, and to protect terminals so nothing can short in transit.
Sep 24, 2026·6 min read
Four stages, all in one building in Phoenix: receiving, sorting by chemistry, size reduction, and separation into recovered products.
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Aug 27, 2026·6 min read
Across a processed load we recover 85 to 95% of incoming material by weight as marketable product.
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Sep 17, 2026·5 min read
Gaylords or drums on pallets, terminals protected, chemistries kept apart. What we check before a load moves.
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