Recycle Lithium Today for Tomorrow's Cars | Green Energy News: "The companies which are embracing lithium with such passion are focusing their hopes and dreams for clean vehicles on a relatively scarce metal. While at least one study claims there is plenty of lithium available from a variety of sources for anything we want to do with it, lithium battery developers are most likely hoping that those current evaluations of global resources are wrong and there is much more lithium available than now thought. That kind of logic says that as the demand for a resource goes up so does the exploration of it. Oil companies have found more crude than ever thought possible 100 years ago. So, lithium might be in greater quantities too if lithium miners look a little harder. Abundant supplies of lithium would make it cheaper and cut costs for battery makers.
Part of the appeal, one of the green credentials of lithium, is its recyclability. Religiously recycled, much of the lithium stashed away in batteries should be able to be recovered, reprocessed and reused.
Given that lithium is so rare, and the market for it is increasing almost daily, you’d think that there would be plans to increase recycling capabilities. The growth of lithium batteries should be equal to the ability to recycle them at their end of life a few years hence. That is, for every new lithium battery that comes o"
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