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  • Staggering Quantities of Valuable Metals Are Winding Up in the Garbage Bin

    Staggering Quantities of Valuable Metals Are Winding Up in the Garbage Bin

    To build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to need a lot more metals. Mining those metals from the Earth creates damage and pollution that threaten ecosystems and communities. But there’s another potential source of the copper, nickel, aluminum, and rare-earth…