Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined

Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by jacquesm on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @08:39PM (#28925503)

100% agreed, this is exactly the problem. Just take a pack of yoghurt, we had good paper packaging and now they've glued a useless plastic port to it. Boom, no longer recyclable. Same with cheese and other bread toppings, all used to be packaged in perfectly recyclable paper and now it's sold in see-through plastic.

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Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by adrianN on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @01:49AM (#28927217)

See through plastic can be both recycleable and biodegradable and might even use less ressources to produce, and improve the shelf life so that less food is wasted. Details are very important in these matters, which is why it's a bad idea to put the burden of figuring this all out on consumers.

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Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by YokoZar on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @09:57PM (#28925949)

Food-soiled paper was never recyclable.

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Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by scrose on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @10:09PM (#28926010)

Maybe OP had meant compostable?

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Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined by dnautics on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @10:14PM (#28926045)

Probably shouldn't compost dairy, unless it's industrially composted with chemical treatment

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