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Henrietta —
Researchers from the Rochester Institute of Technology are looking at ways to reduce the impact from battery waste on the environment, and grants awarded to the school's Golisano Institute for Sustainability will support that effort.
RIT assistant professor Gabrielle Gaustad and her colleagues are exploring the issue with $700,000 in grants from national and state agencies.
"We have been quite fortunate to work with such forward-thinking funding groups on battery recycling, and I have personally been lucky to team up with such great collaborators here at RIT," said Gaustad in the press release.
It's estimated that over 300 million lithium ion batteries enter the waste stream each year, and that number is expected to grow.
Gaustad is joined by Callie Babbitt, assistant professor of sustainability, and Brian Landi, assistant professor of chemical engineering, in the research.
The researchers recently received a $293,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to expand this research effort by quantifying environmental, health and safety tradeoffs of alternate recycling pathways, with particular focus on the fate of the nanomaterials that can be found in new battery technologies.
A $150,000 grant from the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute will allow Gaustad and Babbitt to focus their investigation on environmentally benign battery recycling processes.
RIT assistant professor Gabrielle Gaustad and her colleagues are exploring the issue with $700,000 in grants from national and state agencies.
"We have been quite fortunate to work with such forward-thinking funding groups on battery recycling, and I have personally been lucky to team up with such great collaborators here at RIT," said Gaustad in the press release.
It's estimated that over 300 million lithium ion batteries enter the waste stream each year, and that number is expected to grow.
Gaustad is joined by Callie Babbitt, assistant professor of sustainability, and Brian Landi, assistant professor of chemical engineering, in the research.
The researchers recently received a $293,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to expand this research effort by quantifying environmental, health and safety tradeoffs of alternate recycling pathways, with particular focus on the fate of the nanomaterials that can be found in new battery technologies.
A $150,000 grant from the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute will allow Gaustad and Babbitt to focus their investigation on environmentally benign battery recycling processes.
Researchers from the Rochester Institute of Technology are looking at ways to reduce the impact from battery waste on the environment, and grants awarded to the school's Golisano Institute for Sustainability will support that effort.
RIT assistant professor Gabrielle Gaustad and her colleagues are exploring the issue with $700,000 in grants from national and state agencies.
"We have been quite fortunate to work with such forward-thinking funding groups on battery recycling, and I have personally been lucky to team up with such great collaborators here at RIT," said Gaustad in the press release.
It's estimated that over 300 million lithium ion batteries enter the waste stream each year, and that number is expected to grow.
Gaustad is joined by Callie Babbitt, assistant professor of sustainability, and Brian Landi, assistant professor of chemical engineering, in the research.
The researchers recently received a $293,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to expand this research effort by quantifying environmental, health and safety tradeoffs of alternate recycling pathways, with particular focus on the fate of the nanomaterials that can be found in new battery technologies.
A $150,000 grant from the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute will allow Gaustad and Babbitt to focus their investigation on environmentally benign battery recycling processes.
RIT assistant professor Gabrielle Gaustad and her colleagues are exploring the issue with $700,000 in grants from national and state agencies.
"We have been quite fortunate to work with such forward-thinking funding groups on battery recycling, and I have personally been lucky to team up with such great collaborators here at RIT," said Gaustad in the press release.
It's estimated that over 300 million lithium ion batteries enter the waste stream each year, and that number is expected to grow.
Gaustad is joined by Callie Babbitt, assistant professor of sustainability, and Brian Landi, assistant professor of chemical engineering, in the research.
The researchers recently received a $293,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to expand this research effort by quantifying environmental, health and safety tradeoffs of alternate recycling pathways, with particular focus on the fate of the nanomaterials that can be found in new battery technologies.
A $150,000 grant from the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute will allow Gaustad and Babbitt to focus their investigation on environmentally benign battery recycling processes.
