Li recycling 2% old fashioned lead acid 98%
In the podcast "Let's Talk About Electric Vehicles" Season 1, Episode 3 the podcaster discusses what happens to discarded lithium batteries. The podcaster lists sources and citations in the show notes...
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wa8yxm wrote:
One of the reasons Lead Acid recycling is 98% is that we have actual laws.
Now you the consumer do not see the law so much as the stores do but you know what CORE is? When you buy a battery and install it you take the old one in for CORE exchange (refund) or in my case normally I take the old battery in, buy the new and then install (on the RV, on the car I let the store install) so I get a "Discount" for returning the old battery to the store.
NOT so with LI batteries
And we have a "Throw it in the trash" Mentality so they get thrown in the trash.
IF we had CORE return policy on LI's More would be recycled.
Yes - back to the topic -
The figure I quoted in the OP is batteries at the end of their service life being scrapped for materials ("recycled") vs landfilled or incinerated or thrown in the fire ring on BLM land...
