Study: Recycled plastic, food, paper, and tyres tipped to provide battery raw materials

Stuart Stone
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Researchers attempt to convert waste into battery raw materials, as UK forecast to require lithium 14-times the weight of The Shard by 2050

Raw materials from plastic packaging, food, paper waste, and tyre-wear particles have been tipped to help the UK address a projected shortfall in battery storage capacity that would require lithium 14-times...

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