Cobalt Is Not Recycled

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Only ten per cent of material that is used in industry, and all the different industries, only ten per cent gets recycled. The other ninety per cent is used stuff that ends up either in hibernation, so in the drawers in our homes, or in a land fild. Every year, every year, ninety per cent comes from the ground, from a mine, let's say, and gets land fill. To make it super simplistic, it does not get recycled. And yet there's a shortage. When we have all these devices, every single person has an old phone, or an old this or that that has cobalt in it. We're at this point where i's...

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