Stop or Strip? Teaching Disassembly When to Quit
A battery pack arrives at an end-of-life processing facility. The easy story says the operator should recover as much value as possible while doing the sustainable thing. The harder story starts five minutes later, when someone has to decide whether to stop, reuse the pack, remove the cover, strip the thermal shield, extract a module, test it, recycle it, or finally admit defeat and dispose of what remains. ...