Tens of thousands of batteries that were damaged in a fire in January at one of the world’s largest battery storage plants in Moss Landing will be removed, treated and transferred to a recycling facility in Nevada starting Sept. 22, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday.

Two truckloads a day of the batteries will be driven 330 miles to the American Battery Technology Company in McCarran, Nevada, a facility in the desert about 15 miles east of Reno that conducts commercial-scale lithium-ion battery recycling.

The company recovers materials such copper, aluminum, steel and intermediate lithium from old batteries.

“Damaged batteries can be unstable,” said Kazami Brockman, a civil engineer and on-scene coordinator for the EPA’s Moss Landing cleanup. “We are focused

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