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Study shows 99% of used lead-based vehicle batteries in the EU are collected and recycled

Green Car Congress

The batteries are picked up at collection points by specialized companies which transport and deliver the batteries to secondary smelting plants operating under strict environmental regulations. In all cases they are then sent on to collection points. Some processes neutralise the spent electrolyte and then dispose of it.

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Japanese carmakers still ‘most sustainable’

Green Cars News

A focus on tailpipe CO2 emissions has distracted away from the impact of car production, suggests Professor Frank Figge who co-authored the ‘Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing’ study. Its sodium oxide value contributions show the worst level of resource efficiency in the entire study.

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