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Re:Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to e... by loufe on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:13PM (#27963949)
There are quite a few stories about companies and research groups gunning for increasingly high lithium extraction from spent batteries. We're not there yet, but leave it to an open market to extract something of value as efficiently as possible from an effectively free resource.
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Re:Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to e... by ErikVandeWater on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:48PM (#27964465)
> We're not there yet, but leave it to an open market to extract something of value as efficiently as possible from an effectively free resource.

Recycling can never be free or even close. There's a lot of processing that goes from dismantling a battery, to segregating the lithium, to putting it back in a new battery. Recycle is last of the 3 Rs for a reason.

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