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Why does the opening line of "all along the watchtower" spring to mind?

Oink.

There's currently more recycling capacity than demand, as most batteries are still fairly new, so there are relatively few "end of life" (EOL) batteries available for recycling. It also make sense for battery manufacturers to build recycling facilities, both to recover raw materials from future depleted batteries, and make use of excess materials from the production of them: "For now, roughly half of recycling plants’ feedstock material is made up of production scrap from battery factories, including electrode offcuts and faulty cells. But over the next decade, EOL batteries will come to dominate that feedstock as battery production becomes more efficient and the availability of EOL batteries grows. While recyclers wait for those EOL batteries to arrive, a lot of their current capacity is underused. “On a global basis, we have much more capacity than what we need,” Melin says." Lithium-ion battery recycling goes large (acs.org)

Most puns make me feel numb... ...but maths puns make me feel number.

A priest, an imam and a rabbit entered a clinic to donate blood. The nurse asked the rabbit: “what’s your blood type?” “I’m probably a type O”, he replied.

I think we have a winner. What the world is coming to is the biggest joke of all. The showjumping category of the Finnish Hobbyhorse Championships 2024. It's already been proposed as an Olympic sport.