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yahootube•about 4 hours ago

This is because of expiring patents which create an artificial inflation of businesses' durable market value for the incumbent allowing them to monopolize the market via supply scarcity. Naturally there would have been more recycling the entire time if it were not restricted by patents.

infecto•about 3 hours ago

Which patents were the biggest hold backs in the recycling industry? I am curious how the patent landscape looks today compared to a decade ago. Seems like it would be exploding in more recent history.

pfdietz•about 4 hours ago

Or, less conspiratorially, it's because the volume of batteries that need recycling has been steadily growing.

mhb•29 minutes ago

Or because the possibility of profits incentivized invention.

manoDev•about 3 hours ago

Both can be true.

Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

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