 Environmental groups do think battery recycling can help the planet if it's done right. To explain how these processes are improving, imagine you have a big Lego creation and you want to make a different Lego creation. Melting it down to make new Lego bricks would obviously be a huge waste of energy. Taking it apart and sorting all the bricks, that's more finicky but cleaner. Now Ascend figured out you don't even have to sort all the bricks.