VW and Redwood want to recycle your old laptop and cell phone batteries
Enlarge / The recycling program will begin with 14 dealerships but expand throughout the year. (credit: Redwood Materials)
Recycling old laptop and cell phone batteries will get a bit easier this Earth Day. Redwood Materials and Volkswagen Group will start rolling out collection bins for old batteries starting on April 22.
Founded in 2017 by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, Redwood has raised investment from Amazon and more recently was awarded a $2 billion loan by the US Department of Energy to expand its battery-recycling capacity.
It has also signed partnerships with several OEMs, including Ford, Volvo, and VW, to help them close the production loop, recycling materials from their old batteries to make new ones.