“Urban Mine” A Modern Source of Materials: Part I Battery Recycling

Abstract

Today world population increase and related economy expands are accompanied with important growth of substantial need for natural resources. Consequently, in order to sustain same level of economic activities a great amount of energy and resource are consumed [1]. The energy preoccupation linked to a potential “peak oil” introduces a strong actions on fuel saving and utilization of clean energy. In particular emerging of climate changing problematic and global warming issues from Kyoto protocol [2,3] with impact of greenhouse gases and CO2 are the most important challenges the last 3 decades.