We need energy. We want to transition from significant emissions of greenhouse gases toward more sustainable, climate-neutral sources of energy. We believe foreseeing the demand for batteries dropping at any point in the near future is difficult.
But there is a problem. Redwood Materials, a company that is focusing on battery recycling, articulates it very clearly in the title of figure 1 and then in their infographic. The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the fact that many things have built toward highly globalized supply chains. Batteries are a critical example, and securing supply is a topic that many regions are thinking about today.
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