Fred Rostami of GreenLIB talks about recovering and recycling materials from lithium batteries.

OUTLINE

• (00:00) Introduction
• (00:33) Fred’s career path
• (01:21) GreenLIB’s elevator pitch
• (01:55) Common and state-of-the-art battery materials recovery tech
• (03:42) Technical and economic challenges associated with materials recovery
• (04:43) Recovery vs. recycling
• (05:16) Recovery/Recycling vs. extraction of new materials
• (07:06) Innovations in improving efficacy and efficiency of materials recovery
• (08:14) Factors that make innovation slow
• (08:58) GreenLIB’s technology
• (12:52) Regulatory environment
• (14:29) Commercialization
• (17:26) GreenLIB’s team
• (20:52) Entrepreneurial journey
• (22:03) Challenges, uncertainties, risks
• (23:58) Mistakes
• (26:01) Fun aspects of being an entrepreneur