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With the current global projection of over 130 million electric vehicles (EVs), there soon will be a need for battery waste management. Especially for all‐solid‐state lithium‐ion batteries (lithium ASSBs), aspects of waste management and circular economy have not been addressed so far. Within such ASSBs, the use of solid‐electrolytes like garnet‐type Li₆.₅La₃Zr₁.₅Ta₀.₅O₁₂ (LLZTO) may shift focus on strategies to recover not only the transition metal elements but also elements like La/Zr/Ta. In this work, we present a two‐step recycling approach using citric acid as the leaching agent to separate and recover the individual components of a model cell comprising of Li₄Ti₅O₁₂ (LTO) anode, Li₆.₅La₃Zr₁.₅Ta₀.₅O₁₂ (LLZTO) garnet electrolyte and LiNi₁/₃Mn₁/₃Co₁/₃O₂ (NMC) cathode. We observe that by adjusting the concentration of citric acid, it was possible to separate the materials from each other without strong mixing of individual phases and also to maintain their principle performance characteristics. Thus, the process developed has a potential for upscaling and can guide towards considering separation capability of battery components in the development of lithium ASSBs.

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