New Delhi, Dec. 24 -- Amid India's push for self-reliance in rare earths and critical minerals, e-waste recycler Attero plans to spend Rs.2,000 crore over the next three years to expand its battery recycling and critical minerals refining capacity, said co-founder and CEO Nitin Gupta.

The company aims to scale up its rare earth recovery and recycling capacity in India to 100 tonne per day, from the current 1 tonne.

"Our (lithium ion) battery recycling capacity will increase to almost 300,000 tonne per annum from the current 17,000 tonne, almost 15 times the expansion," he said.

Attero currently recovers rare earth elements from used permanent magnets and exports its recycled rare earth products. It recovers minerals such as neodymium a...