Recycling copper is already cheaper than mining a lot of cases.
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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks agosure, but that doesn’t affect the actual production of copper, they’ll just start recycling it when mining becomes more expensive than recycling it regardless of taxes
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
einkorn@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
We might want to stop mining new copper before the people in this region run out of water, though?
Because knowing companies they will not stop on their own.