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minus-squareFluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 hours agoGiven inefficiency you need 10% of virgin materials to make a new one, and there are batteries that don’t end up in the recycling stream
minus-squarebountygiver [any]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 hours agoIt still means every gram of the materials are yielding essentially 10x of use. And when we make these huge batteries it’s easier to get them back to the recycling stream since we can easily make that the only way you dispose of them.
minus-squareFluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 hours agoFundamentally as long ad the atoms still exist they should be theoritically recoverable but the last percent is gonna be harder than the first 99% Materials Recycling needs to be a major research focus
Given inefficiency you need 10% of virgin materials to make a new one, and there are batteries that don’t end up in the recycling stream
It still means every gram of the materials are yielding essentially 10x of use. And when we make these huge batteries it’s easier to get them back to the recycling stream since we can easily make that the only way you dispose of them.
Fundamentally as long ad the atoms still exist they should be theoritically recoverable but the last percent is gonna be harder than the first 99%
Materials Recycling needs to be a major research focus