Battery knowledge · Supply chain and regulation
Lithium brine
Lithium-rich salt water pumped from beneath the salt flats of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia and concentrated in evaporation ponds over a year or more. Direct lithium extraction aims to pull the lithium out chemically in days instead.
- Also called
- salar, DLE
Example
Supply chain and regulation: an example situation
Carbon footprints can be compared only with compatible boundaries and functional units.
Read Lithium brine alongside Critical raw materials in this context. Materials that an economy depends on and whose supply is concentrated or at risk: for batteries, lithium, cobalt, nickel, natural graphite and manganese. The EU and US both list them and attach sourcing and recycling targets.
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References & further reading
Further reading on this topic
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- Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries
European Union / EUR-Lex · 2023
Topic background · Battery sustainability, information, waste management and battery passport provisions. Consult the current consolidated text and applicable implementing acts.