Aqua Metals, Inc. announced it has successfully recovered critical battery metal from spent lithium-ion batteries at production scale by electroplating. The Company's pilot Li AquaRefining system has proven the ability to remove impurities and trace metals from tons of recycled lithium battery ‘black mass' and then selectively recover pure metal using electricity instead of polluting furnaces or wasteful chemicals processes. Reclaiming metals with the Company's closed-loop electroplating technology enables economically favorable and efficient production of high-purity products from spent lithium batteries, without high-energy furnaces or the continuous waste streams and expense of one-time-use chemicals.

Aqua Metals believes in a clean energy future powered by renewables and sees recycling battery material with electricity derived from renewable sources as the only viable pathway to achieving net-zero operations. The Company currently purchases renewable energy credits (REC) for the electricity used at the pilot facility and offsets all remaining direct and indirect carbon emissions in its carbon footprint.