Most gadget-owning people in the world today are unaware of the fact that there within their pockets, work bags, on the kitchen counter, is a device chock full of rare, highly valuable earth metals.

ETH Zurich researchers have developed a sustainable method to recover gold from electronic waste. The method uses a sponge made from denatured whey proteins that selectively adsorb gold ions. The ...

Chinese researchers have discovered a fast, low-cost and environmentally cleaner method for extracting gold ...

A consortium of United Kingdom firms that includes Tetronics International, Swindon, U.K., has announced a £1 million ($1.5 million) project that is targeting the recycling of obsolete electronics ...

image: Scientists at the Critical Materials Institute, headquartered at the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, have developed a new two-step process to make recycling rare-earth metals easier ...

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ETH doctoral student Marie Perrin presents the new recycling approach. In her left hand, she is holding the raw material in the form of a fluorescent lamp and, in her right, the yellow reagent that ...

Chris Elgar receives funding from EPSRC grant EP/W018632/1 'Technology critical metal recycling using ultrasonics and catalytic etchants (SonoCat)' Our increasing reliance on technology is placing ...