The ‘Clean’ Technology That’s Poisoning People

污染人们的“清洁”技术

The Daily

2025-12-02

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Lead is an essential but toxic element of car batteries. The U.S. auto industry promotes the recycling of it as an environmental success story. An investigation by The New York Times and The Examination reveals that the initiative comes at a major human cost, especially abroad. Peter S. Goodman, who covers the global economy, explains the dirty business of a supposedly clean technology. Guest: Peter S. Goodman, who covers the global economy for The New York Times. Background reading:  The U.S. auto industry was warned for years that battery recycling was poisoning people, an investigation by The Times and The Examination showed.Read more about the investigation.Photo: Finbarr O'Reilly for The New York Times For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.  Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.
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  • In the contentious fight over how to address climate change in the United States,

  • recycled lead is a feel-good story.

  • It can be processed with techniques that keep workers safe and reused in batteries that power millions of vehicles around the world.

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