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Do you worry about the finite materials you use when you get a plastic container, or buy a car, or appliances, or stone countertops? This is a very odd belief
by epistasis 3y ago
Do you worry about the finite materials you use when you get a plastic container, or buy a car, or appliances, or stone countertops?
This is a very odd belief to have when it comes to batteries, because we are nowhere close to even discovering how much, say, lithium we have easily available, and more deposits are discovered all the time these days. Nobody bothered to identify them in the past, so we are looking now.
Also, batteries will be far more recycled than, say, your furniture or all the other things in the house. They are expecting >90% recovery of the materials, and in the 10-20 years of use, battery technology advances so much that when they get remade into more batteries, that 90% recovery will store even more electricity than the 100% of materials did the first time.
While I'm glad people are having these concerns, in general, they should be concerns about all aspects of consumed goods, not just the goods that are already doing the most to reduce environmental impact.