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U Florida team using fungi to extract cobalt and lithium from waste batteries

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Most likely, many head to a landfill to slowly break down in the environment or go to an incinerator to be burned, generating potentially toxic air emissions. The demand for lithium is rising rapidly, and it is not sustainable to keep mining new lithium resources. It is unclear how many electronic products are recycled.

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U Alberta study shows for the first time that sunlight causes chemical reactions in road dust; singlet oxygen

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— In the study, the team study, investigated the photochemical production of 1 O 2 by size-fractionated road dust collected in Edmonton, Alberta and compared the reactivity of this substrate to that of Arizona test dust, Niger sand, and Cape Verde dust. —Sarah Styler, corresponding author. Cote, Stephanie R. Holod, Thomas H.