Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries Offers Benefits Over Mining Virgin Metals

CleanTechnica
By Carolyn FortunaFeb 12, 2025, 3:40 pm141 pts
Recycling lithium-ion batteries is the way to go, according to a new Stanford University lifecycle analysis published in Nature Communications. That’s because recovering the critical metals from used lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has significantly lower environmental impacts than does mining virgin metals.…

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