【10,000-Ton Lithium Battery Recycling Project Proposed】On April 10, Linyi Yihe New District announced the acceptance of a recycling project for 10,000 tons of spent lithium batteries annually. The project will establish a production line to process spent batteries, electrode sheets, and battery cells through sorting, dismantling, crushing, screening, and refining to recover battery powders and metals (copper, aluminum, iron) for downstream reuse.