Breaking down rare earth element magnets for recycling

Why not just dump them all in a landfill we can name magnet mountain until we have an enormous magnetic mountain of haphazardly piled, ever-shifting magnets?

In 2018, Tour and his colleagues discovered that this rapid heating process, called flash joule heating, can turn any carbon source—including coal, biochar, and mixed plastic—into graphene

Wait we discovered how to transform mixed plastic into graphene seven years ago wtf?

If the article doesn't load, I'll sum up it for you: the trick is to separate the north pole from the south pole and store them separately.