Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase more than 7-fold in last 10y

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• yahootube 42 minutes ago
  This is because of expiring patents which create an artificial inflation of businesses' durable market value for the incumbent allowing them to monopolize the market via supply scarcity. Naturally there would have been more recycling the entire time if it were not restricted by patents.
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  • pfdietz 40 minutes ago
    Or, less conspiratorially, it's because the volume of batteries that need recycling has been steadily growing.
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    • manoDev 20 minutes ago
      Both can be true.