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Dr Will Barker: Mint Innovation CEO on the company securing $18m to recycle EV batteries for Jaguar Land Rover · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: So major carmakers turned to New Zealand to help recycle
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  Speaker 2: their EV batteries and to tell us who doctor Will
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  Speaker 2: Baker joins you now from Mint Innovation.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Will, Hi, Andrew, thanks for having me on show.
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  Speaker 2: So you've got an eighteen million dollar contract to recycle
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  Speaker 2: EV batteries.
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  Speaker 3: Who with Yeah, there's a Jaguar androver So as part
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  Speaker 3: of the collaboration we have with them to scale our
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  Speaker 3: technology from the pirate scale which we do in Auckland
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  Speaker 3: into kind of larger scale that then goes on to
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  Speaker 3: commercial scale in the UK.
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  Speaker 2: So they ship their batteries to New Zealand to be recycled.
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  Speaker 2: Here are we taking risks here?
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  Speaker 3: No, we don't recycle them here. We are building a
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  Speaker 3: plant with them in the UK and that we're using
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  Speaker 3: the technology that we developed here in New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: So obviously batteries are being used more and more become
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  Speaker 2: the best at lithium removal and disposal in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's essentially what the technology does. We've developed a
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  Speaker 3: unique technology and we are scaling to be one of
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  Speaker 3: the world leaders in this.
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  Speaker 2: How did you do that?
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  Speaker 3: We've got some very very clever lab people. We start
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  Speaker 3: the business and recovery metals from e waste and have
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  Speaker 3: just kind of extended the platform to looking at other
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  Speaker 3: waste streams with interesting metals and lessium. Mind batteries huge
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  Speaker 3: problem and those critical metals in them are a huge opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: If you can create a circular solution, then everybody's a winner.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good on you. I hope you've developed a better mousetrap,
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  Speaker 2: so to speak. Will Barker, the man behind Mint Innovation,
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Will Barker, I should say, And yes, we're dealing
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  Speaker 2: with the UK's lithium battery removal and that's a good
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  Speaker 2: thing and that's a growth industry.
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