“Batteries differ widely in chemistry and construction, which makes it difficult to create efficient recycling systems. And the cells are often held together with tough glues that make them difficult to take apart. That has contributed to an economic obstacle: It’s often cheaper for battery makers to buy freshly mined metals than to use recycled materials.”

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GM is recalling 70,000 chevy bolts... each chevy bolt battery contains 288 cells and weighs 947 lbs.

that's about an entire coup worth of lithium.

the batteries would have expired in a few years anyway. they're unrecyclable. such a shame that they lost like 4 whole years of use out of 70,000 batteries before they couldn't be recycled anyway. what a pointless waste, for no other reason than our noble american manufacturing has no comptent quality control

Millions of electric cars are coming. What happens to all the dead batteries? Researchers urgently seek better ways to reuse spent cells Science | AAAS

Capitalism cannot be expected to solve any problem where the solution is less profitable than the problem itself.