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Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

Electric vehicle batteries could spark recycling market

A battery recycling initiative comes amid record electric car sales fuelled by rising fuel prices. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

As many as 4000 electric vehicle batteries could be recycled and used a source of critical minerals every year after an Australian start-up secured a $12 million funding boost.

Perth-based Renewable Metals announced the investment on Monday, which it said would help to establish a battery-recycling prototype plant in Western Australia and design its first commercial facility in NSW.

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