“The process starts with old batteries being separated and burned to strip away non-metal components. What’s left gets crushed into something called black mass. This is essentially a powder packed with recoverable metals. From there, a water-based chemical treatment called hydrometallurgy pulls the lithium out. One clever distinction in this new process is that the recovered lithium hydroxide actually replaces a chemical traditionally used during refining. This cuts the carbon footprint by about 40% compared to older methods.”

Article also said that previous methods got about 45% of the lithium from recycling.

False info. Youtube doesn’t let me copy text so i have to post the link instead.

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxXC22pT401KbL_KUAv_KhYZeMN9CQoGMh

Hardware unboxed made a couple community posts about it and they are the source of the original false claim.