Last fall, EPA hosted a virtual stakeholder workshop to brainstorm solutions to prevent fires from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries in the waste stream and to discuss how to increase recycling of lithium-ion batteries. EPA gathered stakeholders from multiple sectors to encourage discussion of the end-of-life issues around these batteries from a variety of viewpoints.
EPA recently published a final summary report, which includes the main takeaways from the workshop, as well as summaries of participant discussions on six separate breakout group topics: education, collection, labeling, design, recycling of small-format lithium-ion batteries, and recycling of large-format lithium-ion batteries.