Battery material mining and recycling: environmental impacts, challenges and green solutions

This gold open-access themed collection aims to highlight the environmental impact of mining and recycling of minerals and metals from batteries, welcoming papers at the social-environmental science interface.

We hope to attract submissions in the following areas for this collection:

• Health implications of mining activities on local populations, including air and water quality impacts
• Biodiversity impacts of mining and recycling activities
• Comparisons of environmental effects of deep sea mining and land-based mining
• Environmentally friendly strategies to reduce material demand and requirements
• Case studies of best practices in mining management for low emissions
• Circular economy and systems approaches to minimising negative environmental and social effects of the minerals supply chain
• Policy and governance in relation to the social and environmental impacts of mining and recycling activities
• Methods and data for quantifying nature positive mining in the planning stages and during actual reclamation
• Papers considering environmental justice

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• How PFAS materials enter our environmental systems
• Development of alternative materials
• Methods of contamination prevention
• Human exposure and toxicity
• How PFAS contaminants enter our eco systems
• The effect of PFAS of natural systems
• Remediation and recovery of damaged and polluted soils
• Water remediation methods for PFAS removal

Authors are welcome to submit original research as a Communication, Full Paper or Review article. Please contact the editorial office to register your interest or for more information.

Please inform the editorial office if you submit a paper for in response to this call.