China’s dying EV batteries, solar cells are powering a circular economy in new-energy era

Recycling critical materials such as lithium, cobalt and nickel are driving profits and shoring up China's resource security as trade war with US hits supply chains. — SCMP

One man’s waste is Ma Long’s treasure.

And in the new-energy era, his map leads to exhausted lithium-ion batteries – veritable troves of reusable resources that are supercharging profits at Ma’s company, a maker of solid-waste-recycling equipment in central China.