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It depends on the type of lithium battery.
If the battery is doped with rare earth elements then yeah they are pretty bad for the environment. The way these elements are mined uses and produces a lot of really nasty chemical wastes and of every pound of rare earth elements brought to the surface at least a pound of useless radio active elements are brought up too.
Now batteries may or may not use these elements but solar panels do.
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