Currently, Tozero’s pilot plant processes nine tonnes of lithium-ion battery waste per day, but the startup is shooting for unlimited capacity in what it hopes will be just another couple of years of scaling its business.
“Other competitors raise way more money to get to industrial plant. But as our process and our technology is so lean and efficient we don’t require more to get to our first industrial deployment, or what the investor world would call the ‘first of a kind’ plant. That’s what we’re aiming to build,” co-founder and CEO Sarah Fleischer (pictured above, left) told TechCrunch.