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[https://grist.org/energy/mining-is-an-environmental-and-human-rights-nightmare-battery-recycling-can-ease-that/ by Tik Root 26/3/25 Grist] | [https://grist.org/energy/mining-is-an-environmental-and-human-rights-nightmare-battery-recycling-can-ease-that/ by Tik Root 26/3/25 Grist] | ||
Rows of dead batteries stretch across some 30 acres of high desert, organized in piles and boxes that are covered to shield them from the western Nevada sun. This vast field is where Redwood Materials stores the batteries it harvests from electric vehicles, laptops, toothbrushes, and the litany of other gadgets powered by lithium-ion technology. They now await recycling at what is the largest such facility in the country. | Rows of dead batteries stretch across some 30 acres of high desert, organized in piles and boxes that are covered to shield them from the western Nevada sun. This vast field is where Redwood Materials stores the batteries it harvests from electric vehicles, laptops, toothbrushes, and the litany of other gadgets powered by lithium-ion technology. They now await recycling at what is the largest such facility in the country. | ||
=====Metal mining on land versus the ocean in the context of the current Biodiversity Crisis===== | |||
[https://www.nature.com/articles/s44183-025-00110-z by Verena Tunnicliffe 5/3/25 npj] | |||
As climate change and biodiversity loss intensify, the deep seabed beckons as a source of metals for batteries. Initiating this new exploitation conflicts with international agreements to decelerate biodiversity loss through wider protections of ecosystem integrity. The poor record of terrestrial mining must not be an excuse to mine the ocean floor. Improved oversight and biodiversity protection as miners increase production on land will produce a better global biodiversity outcome. | |||
