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Plastic packaging may have less climate impact than alternatives.
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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.