

Hybrid automotive sales continue to increase




Ferrari LaFerrari


Source: LA Times

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RE: waste solution?
By maugrimtr on 4/3/2013 9:26:20 AM , Rating: 2
Just another guy who is forgetting their "free market solves all" narrative when it suits him... In this case, the free market works extremely well since reclaiming batteries has a positive economic benefit for those companies (as their purchase-back arrangements confirm).

I'd be more worried about small electronic devices like smartphones. The cost of recycling those is prohibitive despite the vast quantities of rare metals and gold consumed by the industry overall (tiny quantities per device make it too expensive to recycle simply to reclaim those). We have something like 8-10% of annual gold used going into electronics at the moment. A lot of this "trash" ends up being dumped in China from industrialized nations like the US driving an extremely dangerous cottage industry in toxic metals reclamation processes.

