EV batteries last much longer than we were told:
replyhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2022/08/01/electric...
and, after they are no longer useful in EVs, they are still useful for at least another decade as grid storage.
There was (and still is) a lot of black PR around this, sponsored by the fossil fuel industry.
Climate change due to CO2 is going to be far more catastrophic.
replySo India should just keep acting as the waste dump for Europe, US and China because the alternative would be even worse?
replyNo, India should ban nonrechargeable batteries - import and sale. Why is it other countries' fault what India chooses to bring into and sell in India?
replyMost CO2 in the air stays there for geological time frames. Local pollution from badly managed landfills is unlikely to collapse global ecosystems.
replyCO2 is much more serious