Will Fitzgibbon
New York Times·
9 mins to read
A worker unloading dead batteries from a vehicle at a breaking yard in Lagos, Nigeria, in April. Photo / Finbarr O’Reilly, The New York Times
Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.
At Ford Motor Co. headquarters near Detroit, Phillip Toyne, a shy Australian lawyer, warned executives in 2005 that the lead inside car batteries was poisoning
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