Australian EV Recycling Efforts

BMW Australia has announced a new partnership with EcoBatt, a Victorian-based battery-recycling company, to launch a nationwide electric vehicle (EV) battery-recycling program. The initiative will focus on producing high-voltage lithium-ion batteries from BMW vehicles that are damaged or have reached the end of their lifespan.

EcoBatt will handle the recycling at its state-of-the-art Campbellfield facility, home to the world’s first Battery-in-Device Shredding (BIDS) plant. The recovered materials—known as “black mass”—will be refined and reintroduced into manufacturing supply chains to create new, sustainable EV batteries.

“Every home has products with hidden batteries, and until now there hasn’t been a dedicated way to recover them at scale,” said Doug Rowe, CEO of the EcoCycle Group, the parent company of EcoBatt. “This plant gives Australians confidence that when they recycle, those batteries are managed safely, onshore, and responsibly.”

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