An electric vehicle battery is often used to power the electric motors of a vehicle, the most common type is made of lithium-ion due to their specific energy, cycle life and efficiency. The battery makes up a significant portion of the cost and environmental impact of an electric vehicle. There are many options for the materials, hence there are different possible battery chemistries, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. Growth in the electric vehicle industry has generated interest in securing ethical battery supply, as well as responsibly recycling them. This is where SWM comes into the picture to carry out the recycling of EV battery in a responsible manner – have a peep at this short animation for an improved understanding. For more information, please reach us at enquiry@se-curewaste.com or visit our website at www.se-curewaste.com

We are delighted to have been awarded the ESCAP Sustainable Business Network (ESBN) Asia-Pacific Green Deal Silver badge for 2024, as a testament to our commitment towards sustainability and our efforts in reporting ESG metrics aligned with stakeholders’ needs for consistent, comparable, and shareable data.

To advocate for business leadership in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, ESBN has partnered with Asia’s leading ESG data and technology company STACS to launch the ESBN Asia-Pacific Green Deal for Businesses Program, on STACS’s ESGpedia. By attaining the ESBN Asia-Pacific Green Deal badge, SWM is able to future-proof and be better positioned to leverage on ESG opportunities, strengthening our competitive edge within Singapore and across Asia.

Vince Goh, Executive Director & CEO at SWM, said: “Sustainability is an integral part of being a successful business and we always aim to act in an ethical and responsible way. We are committed to operating in a compliant and transparent manner to improve our recovery rate, reduce yield loss so as to minimize waste, prevent uncontrolled environmental releases and takes proactive actions to safeguard the environment and ultimately reducing our emissions and carbon footprints. Publishing our first-ever Sustainability Report with proper GHG accounting, in partnership with ESGpedia, allows us to accurately quantify and communicate our sustainability efforts to stakeholders as we continue our journey in serving our customers responsibly.”

The jumpoff/ kickoff moment has been exciting and rewarding. Today, we have managed to complete our jumpoff ESG report for our financial year between June 2023 to May 2024. With this ESG report, we would then be able to clearly map out action plans to further manage our carbon footprints through improved technology and business practices, taking us steps closer to mitigating carbon emissions and being more responsible from an ESG perspective.

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Press Release: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/esgpedia_esgpedia-esgreporting-carboncalculation-activity-7255119068859432961-LRbh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

ESG Report 2023 – SWM: View ESG report

Se-cure Waste Management (SWM) has been featured together with other recycling members within the industry, for our take on the current situation with the global metal prices trending downwards, the growth within the industry, profitability and future.

SWM highlighted that we are able to process up to 6,000MT per annum, electric vehicle (EV) batteries inclusive. We have reached our full capacity and are currently in search of larger space to increase our processing capacity to better serve the market.

The recycling business experiences similar cyclical trends in-line with that of the economy, and are affected by the declining prices of metal and metal salts. During this period, SWM continues to explore new markets, review internally to drive effective cost management and diversifying our service offerings. It is important for us to monitor economic cycles and adjust our strategies for revenue generation, cost management and risk mitigation so as to position ourselves for long-term success.

With the global attention shift towards sustainability and energy transition, the demand for recycled battery material is expected to increase but not without challenges – increased ESG risk and hence stricter requirements, it Is becoming increasingly challenging to obtain permits and licenses. However, with the scarcity of critical minerals, the world will seek to maximize available resources to achieve energy transition goals. We foresee recycling having a key role to play in the development of a circular economy.

The full article in Chinese Language – https://www.zaobao.com.sg/finance/singapore/story20240901-4551621?gift=1083bde0-1e78-4585-92b2-1c16649f9aca

SWM is delighted to have been awarded the ESCAP Sustainable Business Network (ESBN) Asia-Pacific Green Deal Green Badge, as a recognition to our pledge of support towards the program. With this initiative, SWM leaps one step deeper into the world of ESG, with that continuous and focused aim in creating sustainable business outcomes that drive value and fuel growth while protecting our environment and strengthening societies

In our world, sustainability is associated with SWM’s wholistic approach, taking into account almost everything, from marketing to procurement to logistics to manufacturing to customer service, partnering with like-minded businesses, going green driving long-term environmental benefits. We believe that being committed to sustainability will reduce our carbon footprint and the amount of possible toxic emissions being released into the environment, making it safe for our employees and the broader communities around us.

As the next step to demonstrate our commitment, SWM partners with STACS’s, Asia’s leading ESG data and technology company, and through its digital assessment, report ESG metrics aligned with stakeholders’ needs for consistent, comparable, and shareable data to showcase our sustainability effort to our existing and potential customers, investors and financiers.

We expect this journey to be one year long, with the ultimate aim of completing our very first ESG report for our financial year ending May 2025, and clearly mapped out action plans to further reduce our carbon footprints through improved technology and business practices.

We have been busy recent months forming strategic partnerships within and outside of our industry. These partnerships manifests in different forms, ranging from technical knowledge sharing, collaborating to visit customers jointly – all these come in valuable to SWM, helping us to grow, innovate and even possibly pivoting in a whole new direction in the broad world of lithium-ion battery recycling and repurposing.

SWM continues to aim to contribute to the industry and participates actively within the community to bring about recycling awareness through meaningful and strategic collaboration with our strategic partners.

Participation in DHL’s Asia Chapter – July 24 & 25, 2024:

One of our most recent being with DHL, partnering with them as their downstream service provider, serving the electric vehicle (EV) segment. Rapid electrification is one of the on-going trends in the market. The government’s focus on establishing a stronger network of EV charging stations and the EV ecosystem to drive the adoption of emission-free mobility is anticipated to influence the global EV battery market growth. During DHL’s Asia Chapter on July 24 & 25, 2024, we have had the opportunity to share our business model and recycling approach to the participating clientele, offering an alternative to mining metal salts for new battery manufacturing.

Hosting the MFA’s Singapore Cooperation Program (SCP) foreign delegates – July 18, 2024:

SWM have had the honor of hosting a group of foreign delegates jointly with the Singapore Environment Institute (SEI). SEI serves as the training and knowledge division of the National Environment Agency (NEA) and one of the key mandates of SEI is to organize capacity building workshops customized to specific needs. This round, the focus has been “Integrated Waste Management Strategies and Circular Economy for Sustainable Development”.

The group of 30 foreign government officials spent an afternoon at our premises to understand SWM’s effort and role in sustainability and our sustainable pathways, innovation and technology to resource repurposing and recycling. The lively exchange during the visit has been highly beneficial to SWM as we aim to serve the broader public beyond Singapore.  

CESG2024 Participation – June 19 to 21, 2024:

SWM’s round two involvement at a national level – again, we are proud to be standing alongside our National Environment Agency (NEA) team, this biennial summit welcomed thought leaders, industry captains and policy makers from the globe to connect and collaborate on possible solutions enabling a sustainable and clean environment. SWM participated in one of the three pillars – Resource Circularity, as this pillar stands as our business core – exhibiting as a platinum sponsor for the event, helming a booth, as well as taking up speaking roles during the summit, sharing our thoughts and technological quest to bring about a refreshed approach to lithium-ion recycling and repurposing.

We saw many groups of interested parties coming over to our booth, learning and understanding our process and ultimate business purpose of providing recycled battery grade metal salts as an alternative to mining to battery manufacturers. We had the honor of having many VIPs gracing our booth, including Dr. Amy Khor, Senior Minister of State for Sustainability and the Environment and Transport.

March 20, 2024

 We received a very special guest at SWM on March 20, 2024 – Dr. Amy Khor, Senior Minister of State for Sustainability and the Environment and Transport, and guests from National Environment Agency (NEA) and Ministry of Sustainability & the Environment (MSE).

We spent a delightful afternoon with her and the teams from NEA and MSE, discussing key concerns surrounding the effort for sustainability and what we are doing for the environment as a commercial organization. SWM, being in the heart of innovation and circular economy, a large portion of our commercial effort goes into sustainable innovation as we continue to work closely with our strategic partners (NEU, NTU, LiVEco and others) to address unintended environmental impacts, providing services that are good for the organization and the society in the long term. Dr. Khor, together with the teams, did a site tour to understand our lithium-ion battery recycling line and the peripheral support enabling the recycling and repurposing processes.

Being environmentally responsible is a choice – it means SWM bases our business decisions on values related to respect for the environment and humankind, leaving behind a viable world for generations to come; the feeling of making a difference. This applies to SWM’s business – this is what SWM is all about.

Dr. Amy Khor, Senior Minister of State for Sustainability & the Environment, with some of our key guests for the visit on March 20, 2024

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SWM and NEU’s portion of the interview: 37:41 – 46:54

ABSTRACT: The development of environmentally benign hydrometallurgical processes to treat spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is a critical aspect of the electronic-waste circular economy. Herein, as an alternative to the highly explosive H2O2, discarded orange peel powder (OP) is valorized as a green reductant for the leaching of industrially produced LIBs scraps in citric acid (H3Cit) lixiviant. The reductive potential of the cellulose- and antioxidant- rich OP was validated using the 3,5-dinitrosalicylic acid and 2,2′-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic) acid assays. Leaching parameters such as OP concentration (200 mg), processing temperature (100 °C), H3Cit concentration (1.5 M), reaction duration (4 h), and slurry density (25 g/mL) were systematically optimized to achieve 80−99% leaching efficiencies of Ni, Mn, Co, and Li from the LIB “black mass”. Importantly, solid side- streams generated by the OP-enabled leaching displayed negligible cytotoxicity in three different human cell lines, suggesting that the process is environmentally safe. As a proof of concept, Co(OH)2 was selectively recovered from the green lixiviant and subsequently utilized to fabricate new batches of LiCoO2 (LCO) coin cell batteries. Galvanostatic charge−discharge test revealed that the regenerated batteries exhibited initial charge and discharge values of 120 and 103 mAh/g, respectively, which is comparable to the performance of commercial LCO batteries. The use of fruit peel waste to recover valuable metals from spent LIBs is an effective, ecofriendly, and sustainable strategy to minimize the environmental footprint of both waste types.

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SINGAPORE – The two battery recycling companies here are planning to build new plants in anticipation of a sharp increase in recycling volume as Singapore’s electric vehicle (EV) population grows.

TES Singapore, which currently processes mainly batteries from mobile devices and computers, said it will build an exclusively designed battery recycling plant for electric vehicle batteries in Singapore.

Chief strategy officer John Oh said the new plant will be able to “discharge and dismantle the batteries, and put them through mechanical and chemical recycling processes with state-of-the-art technology”.

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