Comment on Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week
angelsomething@lemmy.one 9 months agoThe problem is there is no real infrastructure to recycle the stuff so it just ends up in landfills with the associated pollution from discarded batteries.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 9 months ago
There are processes to recover raw materials from Li-Ion cells: freeze them to decrease electrolytic reactions, shred them and separate the bits mechanically (using computer vision) and chemically. Very expensive and risky.
9point6@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m not sure I’d want to work in the place where they shred lithium batteries…!