Lithium reminds me of the story of aluminum, which too was only available via destructive and expensive bauxite mining in third world countries. Now most all aluminum is sourced via recycling and makes for much cheaper manufacturing than sourcing from raw materials like we did decades ago.
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Reply to Inexpensive and environmentally friendly mechanochemical recycling process recovers 70% of lithium from batteries by chrisdh79
Lithium reminds me of the story of aluminum, which too was only available via destructive and expensive bauxite mining in third world countries. Now most all aluminum is sourced via recycling and makes for much cheaper manufacturing than sourcing from raw materials like we did decades ago.