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Batteries are critical to our daily lives. They power everything from our phones and laptops to our bikes and cars. But what happens to batteries when they’re no longer usable?
Battery recycling is vital for both environmental and economic reasons. When batteries get recycled, valuable metals like lead and cadmium are recovered and used to make new batteries. This recycling process eliminates the need to mine for these metals, which is terrible for the environment.
In addition, recycling batteries is creating jobs in developed and even developing countries where many of the world’s battery recycling facilities are located.
So how exactly do batteries get recycled? To answer that, you’d have first to know what batteries are made of.
What are batteries made of?
Batteries are made up of different…