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Why you should recycle your batteries

Why you should recycle your batteries

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[–] 4 pts

Doesn't produce air pollution, at least in traditional sense.

So there is air pollution, but since it isn't burned, everything is a-okay...

This feels like propaganda. Where do we make lithium batteries in the USA?

[–] 2 pts

You caught on. They have to now separate lithium from cobalt, and the only way to do that is with a process that requires a lot of heat.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c01128