Li-Cycle Corp. (Li-Cycle), North America’s largest lithium-ion battery recycling company, announced its Mississauga, ON head office and Kingston, Ontario recycling facilities have received certification for four industry standards: ISO (International Standards Organization) 9001 quality standard, ISO 14001 environmental standard, ISO 45001 employee health & safety standard and the R2 (Responsible Recycling) electronics recycling standard.
“Undergoing these rigorous audits was critical to our effort in providing the best possible service to our customers and employees alike,” said Li-Cycle Executive Chairman and Co-Founder Tim Johnston. “These certifications are a major milestone for our team and affirm our commitment to managing quality, the environment, health & safety, and sustainability.”
The ISO 9001 standard is based on quality management principles including a strong customer focus and a commitment to continual improvement. The ISO 14001 standard provides assurance to all stakeholders that environmental impacts are consistently being measured and improved. The ISO 45001 standard enables organizations to provide safe and healthy workplaces by preventing work-related injury and ill health. Finally, the R2 standard demonstrates a strong commitment to sustainability and socially responsible recycling practices for electronics.
Founded in 2016, Li-Cycle provides a solution to the global end-of-life lithium-ion battery problem, while creating a secondary supply of critical battery materials through its innovative recycling technology. Li-Cycle’s Spoke & Hub Technologies minimize the overall environmental footprint of the end-to-end resource recovery process and substantially reduce the intensity of greenhouse gas emissions that would otherwise be produced from mining these finite resources.
Today, Li-Cycle is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, with 10,000 tonnes/yr of Spoke capacity, equivalent to processing over 1 GWh of batteries per year. In December 2020, Li-Cycle’s Spoke 2 facility at Eastman Business Park (EBP) in Rochester, New York became fully operational. Last fall, Li-Cycle closed a Series C equity funding round to fund the development of its Rochester, New York Commercial Hub and to drive expansion into international markets.