Trump’s second term is creating ‘a limbo moment’ for US battery recyclers

Grist
By Maddie StoneJun 10, 2025, 4:30 am199 ptsTop
In a recycling facility in Covington, Georgia, workers grind up dead batteries into a fine, dark powder. In the past, the factory shipped that powder, known in the battery recycling industry as black mass, overseas to refineries that extracted valuable metals like cobalt and nickel. But now it keeps the black…

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