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Burning Gas Pollutes So Much, Dirty EV Battery Manufacturing Evens Out In About 2 Years
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this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2026
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I’m not trying to inject FUD, but don’t some recycled materials wear out? I believe paper products do
Paper is an organic material with structure. Recycling damages that structure when actually you want to preserve it as much as you can. At some point you need a tree to grow to put that organic structure in place.
Batteries have human made structures constructed from pure materials. Battery recycling completely shreds the batteries and then mechanically & chemically separates the materials giving you the pure copper, gold, aluminium, cobalt, zinc, etc back. You're then back to step 1 of the manufacture except you didn't mine your raw materials.