My impression is that auto recycling has been going steadily downhill in the last 20 years, despite these sunny paragraphs about what goes where in current vehi

My impression is that auto recycling has been going steadily downhill in the last 20 years, despite these sunny paragraphs about what goes where in current vehicle recycling: https://www.thebalancesmb.com/auto-recycling-facts-and-figures-2877933 https://www.thebalancesmb.com/auto-recycling-facts-and-figur... Modern vehicles are a mass of composite metals that are hard to recycle (or even repair), massive amounts of plastics including a great deal of plastic encased modular electronics. Adding colossal amounts of pyrically unstable and environmentally dirty batteries to this cocktail seems to be heading rapidly in the wrong direction. 'The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that the world currently has enough capacity to recycle 180,000 metric tons of dead EV batteries a year. For comparison, all of the EVs put on the road in 2019 will eventually generate 500,000 metric tons of battery waste'. It's hard to believe recycling innovations will keep pace with the massive increase in heavily subsidized EV production, and I have concerns taxpayers will be expected to pay for this forced change in transportation culture.