“…Also, for automotive-type LiNMC batteries hydrometallurgical recycling facilities achieve notable recovery efficiencies already today, but this is not necessarily the case for lower-value containing batteries like SIB. [64][65][66] In fact, even for current LiFP batteries, recycling is usually limited to recovering the aluminium, copper and steel components obtained from mechanical recycling steps (crushing, shredding and mechanical separation), while the active material fraction, the socalled black mass (which contains majorly lithium., carbon, iron, and phosphorous in the case of LiFP) is usually not further processed but discarded. 39,67 To evaluate the individual recycling performance of the considered SIB cells, a cell-specic recycling model is therefore required.…”