Verge: Antoine Kunsch, ESE student, quoted in “Lyft is recycling its e-bike and scooter batteries with Redwood Materials”

For Lyft, the deal is about ensuring that its huge, nationwide fleet of electric bikes and scooters aren’t ending up in a landfill at the end of their lifespan — which is now around five years.

“We really tried to close the loop and recycle all of our bikes and scooters,” said Antoine Kunsch, sustainability program manager at Lyft, in an interview with The Verge, “directing either components to specialized recyclers, and batteries to partners like Redwood that can process them and put them back into the global supply chain for battery manufacturing.”