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South America produces most of it recycling may be clean but production seems dirty. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/23/battery-lithium-south-a

• sinxoveretothex 10y ago
  I've just read through the article: what do you see as 'dirty' about the salars? The fact that workers wear masks?
  • dghughes 10y ago
    Like any mining operation you have to move a lot of earth use a lot of energy and dig up large regions. The processing of the slurry to get the lithium after it's mined. All that water needed in a very arid region. It was in contrast to lithium being easily recyclable compared to the vast scale of mining it.