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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infecto 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Which patents were the biggest hold backs in the recycling industry? I am curious how the patent landscape looks today compared to a decade ago. Seems like it would be exploding in more recent history.

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pfdietz 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or, less conspiratorially, it's because the volume of batteries that need recycling has been steadily growing.

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mhb 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Or because the possibility of profits incentivized invention.

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outside1234 6 hours ago | parent [-]

All three of these theories can be true

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TeMPOraL 2 hours ago | parent [-]

In which case the market is working as intended.

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ezfe 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Is someone saying otherwise here?

	▲	natpalmer1776 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		YahooTube’s comment is heavily implying that the market systems in-place stifled invention via patent restrictions.

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manoDev 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Both can be true.

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halestock 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sorry what?