Albemarle gears up to tap metal from old cars
Toyota Celica TA22. Image: Bannon Keft via Flickr
The world’s biggest lithium miner wants to extract more of the battery metal from old cars as demand surges and aging electric vehicles are traded in.
Albemarle Corp. is making investments and partnering with automotive equipment manufacturers on the recycling effort, which it calls “critical” to its future growth.
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The miner is part of a growing list of companies looking to grab a share of the market for recovered battery materials as lithium supplies show signs of tightening. Thirteen years after the Tesla Roadster made its debut, the first generation of EVs is nearing retirement, making more battery packs available. Once that happens, recycling is going to “take off,” said Christopher Perrella of Bloomberg Intelligence.
Historian Beatrice Bodart-Bailey… “I am well aware of how decisions made by a society and often a small group of people or even a single individual impact upon the life of generations to come.” Photo: Danielle Nohra
WITH high temperatures and fires said to become a new normal in Australia, concerned local Beatrice Bodart-Bailey is worried about whether it will cause an increase in the amount of potentially deadly, toxic-waste fires in the ACT.
A national issue, the federal government published a report in 2016, stating that waste fires pose a serious risk to people, the environment and the economy.
Titled “Waste Fires in Australia: Cause for Concern?”, it reveals that, depending on the type of landfill fire and its contents, fires can often smoulder for weeks, producing odorous and noxious smoke that poses a risk to public health and safety.
Climate change risks flushing away global progress on sanitation 30th April 2021
Increasingly frequent, extreme weather events linked to climate change are causing devastation to toilets, water supplies, waste systems and treatment facilities, threatening the health of some of the poorest people in the world. In response to this crisis, researchers from the Sanitation Learning Hub have published a new report providing evidence and practical guidance for adapting projects to make them sustainable for the future.
Over two billion people still lack access to basic sanitation facilities which can allow disease to thrive and damage the health of those young and old. With the Covid-19 pandemic reminding how essential good hygiene and clean water is, and when COP26 has bought climate to the fore, ‘Rural sanitation and climate change: Putting ideas into practice’ puts a spotlight on the importance of factoring climate change impacts into sanitation, especially in vuln
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The NSW by-election in the Upper Hunter has put the spotlight on the energy policies of the major parties.
Mining is the major employer in the region, but all the signs are that the industry is in decline.
So why aren t the candidates in this critical by-election for the NSW Government outlining their policies for a transition to renewables or other industries?
We took some time in the NSW Country Hour to talk to Dr Chris Briggs from the Institute for Sustainable Futures and Christine Gibbs Stewart from Austmine about what they re seeing in the region and the kinds of policies they would like the parties to consider.