Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined
by kragen on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:55PM
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I think you're right—and, unless you wash the bottle by hand before sending it to the recycling center, that's not a "tiny nitpick," it demolishes my whole thesis. But maybe the "thesis" was already so full of caveats as to be fairly demolished in the first place, unless you reduce it to "it depends".
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Re:Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined
by jacquesm on Thursday October 21, 2021 @10:28PM
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Recycling waste water is a whole science, this goes for car washes, dishwashers (which now use less water than doing the same thing by hand) and industrial washing of all kinds of materials. The times when water was used just once are long gone, and that's before we get into thermal recycling to ensure that the maximum amount of energy is extracted from whatever waste remains.