Q 7 is a key question and so far no one has answered it. You have just kicked the can down the road. So will someone please explain to me what happens when the batteries are DEAD?
Simple they recycle the raw materials.
It's called chemistry
Nice glib answer.
But the reality is that recycling batteries is a long way off simple. For a start it's massively energy intensive. It's also a hazardous health issue. Thirdly it's known already (and easily confirmed) that the materials used at the moment are unlikely to be ones that are required in batteries in 30 or so year's time. What about the fact that the raw materials (say lithium for instance) are cheaper to obtain new than to extract from old batteries?
Where do all the batteries we use now actually end up (now)? In landfill, that's where.
Nick
