FairCharge’s Post

Recycling, or "urban mining", is the often overlooked part of the critical minerals self-sufficiency equation. It can't eliminate the need for new mines but it can make a big difference. Recycling is cheaper and greener than producing primary metal and expanding existing recycling capacity means a much shorter permitting process than building new mines. U.S. critical mineral supply-chain planners have taken note. The U.S. Department of Defense is channelling funds to the country's secondary production sector, while the Department of Energy is looking to build from scratch a battery metals recycling chain. US targets scrap to close the critical minerals gap: https://lnkd.in/eqknAxkK