Honda-backed startup opens battery recycling plant in first for Europe

Sarah Fleischer (CEO) and Dr. Ksenija Milicevic Neumann (CTO) with the Chemical Park Gendorf, Germany, in the background. Image supplied.
27 Mar 2026
06:00
A startup backed by major Japanese investors and corporations including Honda and NordicNinja has opened Europe's first industrial demo plant to recover lithium and graphite from dead batteries.

"We've deliberately partnered with investors who get the challenge as much as they believe in what we're building," tozero's CEO Sarah Fleischer tells Impact Loop.

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