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Are there minerals to build all those batteries? Just extrapolating current trends, the answer is: NO. Fortunately, there are smart people thinking beyond current trends. RMI is considering much more than just recycling, to deal with the issue of critical minerals for batteries. Very interesting article!

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There were some really good papers and excellent discussions at the 'Nordic Sustainable Minerals - Spotlight on Critical Raw Materials Traceability and Circularity today. I particularly liked this one, by Liu et al., about mineral traceability for Rare Earth Elements. This is particularly important for trust amongst consumers (including user companies) and can definitely be a force for good, not just when used in the context of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), but also (maybe) to assist to push the formalization of artisanal mining and thereby protect those workers? As well as this, there was some good discussion and widespread acknowledgement that we cannot rely on circularity, and we will always need primary mining. Most participants believed that the most effective driving force for making the circular economy happen is either legislation or the attitude of companies working in the value chain, and that sustainability is also driven by a combination of the two. And definitely, we can look at remining, but never without consideration of the economics and understanding of the primary geology. #nordicsustainableminerals #circulareconomy #weneedmining

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Innovating alloy production: A single step from ores to sustainable metals

An insightful article highlighting the renewed focus on recycling critical metals to close the supply chain gaps for EV batteries: https://hubs.ly/Q02-ns_C0. Looking at past successful metal recycling analogies, the lead industry may serve as a useful template! AnalytiChem is committed to enabling the science of scientists and companies working to develop the global circular economy. #YourScienceEnabled, #CriticalMaterials, #CircularEconomy

"When recycling isn't working in the free market, there is usually a cause. The amount of material or scale of collection may be too limited, or there may be a subsidy on virgin material (General Mining Act of 1872). The biggest problem is self-inflicted by environmentalists - regulations are more strict in proportion to property values, leading to stronger enforcement against lightly polluting industries (recycling, secondary smelting) and lax enforcement of heavily polluting industries (mining, primary smelting)." From my "About Me" Linkedin page. https://lnkd.in/esRD3uc2 The two problems we face are: 1) Capitalists who take advantage of raw material subsidies. 2) Anti-Capitalists who battle based on "their silo" waste. Fetishism by #2 is draining all the environmental capital. Both are a problem.

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