Paper is an organic material with structure. Recycling damages that structure when actually you want to preserve it as much as you can. At some point you need a tree to grow to put that organic structure in place.
Batteries have human made structures constructed from pure materials. Battery recycling completely shreds the batteries and then mechanically & chemically separates the materials giving you the pure copper, gold, aluminium, cobalt, zinc, etc back. You’re then back to step 1 of the manufacture except you didn’t mine your raw materials.
Batteries can have their materials 99.9% reclaimed. No need to keep mining after a certain point.
I’m not trying to inject FUD, but don’t some recycled materials wear out? I believe paper products do
Paper is an organic material with structure. Recycling damages that structure when actually you want to preserve it as much as you can. At some point you need a tree to grow to put that organic structure in place.
Batteries have human made structures constructed from pure materials. Battery recycling completely shreds the batteries and then mechanically & chemically separates the materials giving you the pure copper, gold, aluminium, cobalt, zinc, etc back. You’re then back to step 1 of the manufacture except you didn’t mine your raw materials.