Peri Hartman via EV wrote:
I doubt many people are recycling laptop and phone batteries.
That's because it's nearly impossible to do so. Many of the places that take small consumer batteries for recycling are not taking lithiums, due to the (real or perceived) risk of fire.
But car batteries ? I assume nearly 100% are getting repurposed, at least after a modest amount of time. And, in the future, probably recycled.
I worry that industry won't recycle lithiums until they are *forced* to do it. As long as it's even 1 cent cheaper to buy them new, and landfill the waste, they will.
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