More recently, hybrid car-makers have had programs to take back and safely dispose of used or damaged high-voltage battery packs for 15 years. Those nickel-metal-hydride cells contain precious metals with a known recycling value.
The term secular stagnation was originally coined by Alvin Hansen in 1938 to describe what he feared was the fate of the American economy following the Great Depression of the early 1930s: a check to economic progress as investment opportunities were stunted by the closing of the frontier and the collapse of immigration.
stagnate - cause to stagnate; There are marshes that stagnate the waters 4. stagnate - be idle; exist in a changeless situation; The old man sat and stagnated on his porch; He slugged in bed all morning laze, slug, idle moon around, moon on, moon - be idle in a listless or dreamy way