The entire basis for this is the assumption that goods are being transported using fossil fuels. If we transport the goods using electric trucks suddenly plastic starts to look much, much worse than paper or even glass.
Aluminum is much better all around so I’m not sure why it’s lumped into everything else. It’s basically infinitely recyclable and you don’t have to use natural gas or propane to heat it up to the melting point for forming/extrusion. There’s basically an infinite amount of ways to heat things up; even to really high temperatures.
Does lithium mining inherently push GHG into the atmosphere? I’m honestly asking because I don’t know much about the process other than it requires significant amounts of processing to extract lithium from its surrounding deposits. But if the source of emissions for lithium mining are solely from powering the equipment, it is not really a climate change issue (though even localized environmental damage is bad and needs to be addressed, of course).
The thing with lithium is, that it can be recycled. Can’t say that about coal (etc). Lithium mining is absolute trash, but I hope that we can improve on this.
The entire basis for this is the assumption that goods are being transported using fossil fuels. If we transport the goods using electric trucks suddenly plastic starts to look much, much worse than paper or even glass.
Aluminum is much better all around so I’m not sure why it’s lumped into everything else. It’s basically infinitely recyclable and you don’t have to use natural gas or propane to heat it up to the melting point for forming/extrusion. There’s basically an infinite amount of ways to heat things up; even to really high temperatures.
Alu is very expensive to produce due to how much processing it takes—which also includes requiring a ton of energy and water, IIRC.
Until you start bringing up the lithium mining receipts.
Does lithium mining inherently push GHG into the atmosphere? I’m honestly asking because I don’t know much about the process other than it requires significant amounts of processing to extract lithium from its surrounding deposits. But if the source of emissions for lithium mining are solely from powering the equipment, it is not really a climate change issue (though even localized environmental damage is bad and needs to be addressed, of course).
And oil mining is more ethical?
Oil mining is a more urgent issue, yes, but polluting the land with exhausted lithium mines is not the way to divest.
The thing with lithium is, that it can be recycled. Can’t say that about coal (etc). Lithium mining is absolute trash, but I hope that we can improve on this.
I understand why it’s considered better, I’m merely elucidating the importance of recognizing that it’s a stop gap measure.