Workshop 10: Sustainable battery recycling through the digital product passport: Integration of social factors

Main Presenter:    Martina Zimek 

Co-Authors:   Katharina Berger     Julius Ott      Rupert J. Baumgartner                                    

A digital battery passport (DBP) contains information on all applicable sustainability and life cycle requirements based on a comprehensive definition of sustainable batteries. Therefore, a DBP can be beneficial for a Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) as it enables comprehensive and transparent documentation of the entire life cycle of a battery. However, it is questionable how a DBP can benefit the recycling of Li-ion batteries (beyond legal requirements). The aim of the workshop is to identify the current social challenges in recycling and to discuss how a DBP can contribute to overcoming these challenges and how it can be used to improve data availability in S-LCAs. Therefore, the workshop aims to answer questions about the data requirements, user roles, and use cases of a DBP from a social perspective. The workshop will be interactive, with short input by selected speakers, break-out groups (mind-mapping or slido) and a final group discussion. Participants will be encouraged to
contribute their own experiences and ideas and develop solutions together. After the workshop, participants should have a better understanding of the importance of the DBP for sustainable recycling of batteries and have developed concrete ideas to overcome social challenges of sustainable recycling of batteries.

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