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Speaker 1: News Talk ZB so major carmakers turned to New Zealand

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Speaker 1: to help recycle their EV batteries and to tell us

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Speaker 1: who Doctor Will Barker joins you now from Mint Innovation.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Will, Hi Andrew, thanks for having me on the show.

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Speaker 1: So you've got an eighteen million dollar contract to recycle

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Speaker 1: EV batteries.

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Speaker 2: Who with Yeah, there's a Jaguar androver So as part

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Speaker 2: of the collaboration we have with them to scale our

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Speaker 2: technology from the pirate scale which we do in Auckland

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Speaker 2: into kind of larger scale that then goes on to

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Speaker 2: commercial scale in the UK.

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Speaker 1: So they should their batteries to New Zealand to be recycled.

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Speaker 1: Here are we taking risks here?

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Speaker 2: No, we don't really recycle them here. We are building

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Speaker 2: a plant with them in the UK, and that we're

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Speaker 2: using the technology that we developed here in New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: So obviously batteries of being used more and more. Could

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Speaker 1: we become the best at lithium removal and disposal in

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Speaker 1: the world?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the essentially what the technology does. We've developed

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Speaker 2: a unique technolog and we are scaling to be one

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Speaker 2: of the world leaders in this. How did you do that?

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Speaker 2: We've got some very very clever lab people were start

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Speaker 2: the business and recovery metals from e waste and have

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Speaker 2: just kind of extended the platform to looking at other

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Speaker 2: waste streams with interesting metals and LESSI mind, batteries huge

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Speaker 2: problem and those critical metals in them are a huge opportunity.

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Speaker 2: If you can create a circular solution, then everybody's a winner.

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Speaker 1: Well, good on you. I hope you've developed a better mousetrap,

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Speaker 1: so to speak Will Barker, the man behind Mint Innovation,

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Speaker 1: Doctor Will Barker, I should say, And yes we're dealing

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Speaker 1: with the UK's let's them bettery removal. That's a good

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Speaker 1: thing and that's a growth industry.

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