Hi folks, not really a real update today... just changed some things on this site a little, and now I have a page specifically for showing off my work. At the end of the page I've stuck a coursework essay I wrote in the 0th year of the CDT (also below, for your convenience, if Scribd is working...). It's here because people keep asking me about the state of battery recycling. It is just cobbled together from various sources in the existing literature, and is not a subject I have real experience in - but I hope it serves as an interesting summary. Also, if you're assigned a similar piece of coursework, don't plagiarise me - software is clever these days and it'll be obvious. Update 29/01/19: Cool paper on this very topic: The Environmental Impacts of Recycling Portable Lithium-Ion Batteries - Anna Boyden, Vi Kie Soo, Matthew Doolan (2016) Spoilers: Landfilling lithium-ion batteries is really bad from a human/eco-toxicity point of view; both pyro- and hydro-metallurgical recycling are better; but, as you might expect, recycling emits more CO2 than chucking them in landfill. BUT that's not considering any material extraction avoided by getting recycled materials to use instead - so really, who knows. Update 25/02/19: May I draw your attention to Flexi-Orb, a consumer protection organisation which is aiming to compile a register of home energy storage installations. As well as providing assurance around product quality, fire safety issues, mis-selling of potential financial benefits, etc., their online register aims to improve the collection and decommissioning of degraded battery products. Update 16/07/19: Check out this article: Lithium batteries: Far more widely recycled than second-hand statistics imply. Apparently Asian battery recyclers are going to save us all. Update 21/08/19: Another tasty update: It’s time to get serious about recycling lithium-ion batteries.
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