incentives worth about can80 billion aimed at spurring investments in nonemitting electricity generation green technologies and mining over the next decade in particular it is pushing the recycling of electric batteries in order to create a circular supply chain several factories are already in place in canada and make it possible to recycle 95 percent of the strategic metals present in a battery while using 97 percent less water than extraction and refining per ton of battery material and polluting less says louie diaz of recycling company licycle canada is also hoping to tap into some of the billions of dollars announced by washington for electric vehicles batteries and renewable energy projects licycle for example received in february us375 million from the pentagon such investments are a reminder too that canada will have to maintain a sustained accelerated pace argues houde if it does not want to get caught short of other countries