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New EV battery recycling facility planned for Toyota site

The imminent arrival of a Toyota battery manufacturing site in Liberty continues to spur additional economic growth.

Green Metals, Inc. (GMI) is planning to build a facility to support EV battery waste and recycling. The plant will be located on the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite campus, which is expected to open in 2025.

GMI , which is a Toyota subsidiary, will invest nearly $20 million over the next five years in property, machinery, and equipment. The facility is expected to bring an additional 47 jobs to the area with what a news release calls a “competitive wages and benefits package.”

Randolph Community College will provide training support.

In addition to processing dry battery material, the plant will be responsible for the handling and recycling of other waste materials including cardboard and plastic.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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