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Today — 19 December 2025Main stream

Nigeria Closes Lead Recycling Factories Linked to U.S. Car Industry

Carmakers have known for decades that battery recycling was poisoning people abroad. Nigeria’s crackdown is an effort to catalog the damage.

© Victor Adewale for The New York Times

Collecting soil samples at True Metals, in Ogijo, Nigeria, on Tuesday.
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