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Re:Charging a lithium battery to 80% only? by incongruity on Monday November 20, 2023 @11:03PM (#38359013)
How is that all that damaging? I’m sure those batteries are recycled in basically all cases and yes, I’d expect battery replacement does indeed forestall replacement for many phones.
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Re:Charging a lithium battery to 80% only? by hyperific on Monday November 20, 2023 @11:53PM (#38359441)
The most common processes for recycling lithium ion and lithium polymer batteries are not environmentally friendly. They consume a lot of water and energy and produce toxic byproducts the require further processing and energy to be rendered safe.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsenergylett.1c02602

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Re:Charging a lithium battery to 80% only? by hyperific on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @03:29AM (#38360958)
byproducts that require
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