Soldato
I was watching a vid the other day of a company that recover the batteries. Its a new tech (probably a tweak in reality) they shred batteries into a kind of course grit and via solutions recover 80% on average (varies by element)
Looks to be easy to scale up, no fancy stuff going on.
I don't think your local scrap yard is going to deal with it, but the industry makes a lot of sense, the costs to recover existing materials is a fraction of new.
The other thing is the sources are mainly limited and in often dubious regimes, if the russian oil/gas issues shows anything its that being in charge of your own destiny as much as possible is a massive boon in bad times.
Looks to be easy to scale up, no fancy stuff going on.
I don't think your local scrap yard is going to deal with it, but the industry makes a lot of sense, the costs to recover existing materials is a fraction of new.
The other thing is the sources are mainly limited and in often dubious regimes, if the russian oil/gas issues shows anything its that being in charge of your own destiny as much as possible is a massive boon in bad times.