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Mining is an environmental and human rights nightmare. Battery recycling can ease that. (grist.org)

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Battery recycling provides economic, national security, and environmental benefits. But the United States is playing catch-up to Asian countries, particularly China.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly. Cobalt does not lose its interesting properties if it is mined in a country with good environmental regulations by unionized well-equipped adults, or even better, robots. What changes is that then it becomes a bit more expensive.

It is the way international trade is organized that is problematic, not the fact that we use minerals.