Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined

Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by lrem on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @05:07PM (#28923789)

I'm slightly surprised by landfilling plastic. I hear it's pretty high calorie, up to the point of being energy-positive to burn it with filtering out the fumes. Is it just not enough to make this money-positive when accounting for handling?

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Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by nitrogen on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @07:21PM (#28924961)

Some places do have energy and material recovery facilities next to their landfills that try to extract useful metal and useful energy from trash.

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Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by dnautics on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @10:18PM (#28926061)

I believe Japan does this, but there are dioxins all over the place there.

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Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by fomine3 on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @10:34PM (#28926140)

Dioxins were become problem in 90s so smaller incinerator is banned and now incinerators must run on high temperature (> 800C) for not to emit dioxins. Emissions are also must be measured.

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Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by londons_explore on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @11:45PM (#28926506)

There are plenty of manmade chemicals that don't break down at 800C. For example F-C bonds...

We really ought to be incinerating things at 3000C, but so far we haven't been able to engineer machines to do this without melting themselves...

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Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by fomine3 on Monday October 25, 2021 @05:57PM (#28993640)

Of course not every material can be burned but still fine.

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