What are the effects of the mining, reconditioning and disposing of battery minerals? I ride a bicycle, so the effects of that are easy to imagine, some steel,

What are the effects of the mining, reconditioning and disposing of battery minerals? I ride a bicycle, so the effects of that are easy to imagine, some steel, some rubber, etc. But in wanting an electric car, I get stopped by the worry about children and the disadvantaged being the ones mining these resources at their own peril, and 20 years from now being the ones shipped our recycled batteries.