Regenerate Technology Global is a Not For Sale social innovation venture co-founded by Dr. David Batstone, Not For Sale’s President and Co-Founder. Regenerate is a battery recycling company working to close the loop on the mineral supply chains most linked to forced labor and ecocide. By recovering critical minerals from spent batteries rather than extracting new ones from conflict zones, Regenerate reduces demand for the primary extraction that drives both environmental destruction and trafficking — particularly in the DRC.
The Problem Regenerate Solves
The cobalt, lithium, nickel, and manganese inside every smartphone, laptop, and electric vehicle battery were extracted somewhere. In many cases, that extraction involved forced labor, child labor, toxic pollution, and deforestation — the intertwined crises Not For Sale was built to confront. The global green transition is accelerating demand for these minerals, intensifying pressure on communities in the DRC, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.
Regenerate addresses this at the source: by upcycling core materials from used batteries into next-generation battery production, it reduces the need for new extraction. Every battery recycled is a mine that did not need to open.
How It Works
Regenerate delivers full-cycle battery solutions — from the intake and management of used lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries, to the recovery and resale of valuable materials, through to solving critical supply chain and recall challenges. Its proprietary technology and growing portfolio of patents enable not just recycling but upcycling: enhancing the performance of recovered materials for use in new batteries.
Operations span the EU and the United States, positioning Regenerate at the intersection of the two largest battery markets in the Western world.
Why Regenerate Matters to the NFS Mission
Regenerate is the Impact Stack applied to the most consequential supply chain of the 21st century. The same minerals that power the green transition are the ones extracted by forced labor in the DRC and beyond. Regenerate does not lobby against mining. It makes mining less necessary — by recovering what has already been extracted and putting it back into the system.
This is the same thesis that drives REBBL in Peru and Dignita in the Netherlands: build an enterprise that serves the mission, embed the mission in the enterprise, and let the revenue stay in the system.
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