If you have old electronics sitting around your home, you may be able to recycle them for cash for the precious metals they contain. However, the quantities are small, so it usually makes sense if you ...

Flash joule heating is initially used for graphene production to transform food wastes into something useful. However, the modern method has shifted to retrieving important metals from electronic ...

If you open almost any modern gadget you'll almost definitely strike a tiny bit of gold. Thanks to the precious metal's high conductivity and resistance to corrosion it's used on printed circuit board ...

Researchers have developed an environmentally friendly method for recycling and purifying metals. Using gold earrings from a pawnshop in Gothenburg and biodiesel from the nearest filling station, the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Electronic waste poses one of the fastest growing waste challenges worldwide, with over 50 million tons generated annually. Yet hidden in obsolete devices lies substantial amounts ...

Swiss commodities firm says it recovered 27,000 metric tons of copper for recycling in 2020. Glencore says its smelter in Quebec, Canada, helps make it “North America's largest processor of electronic ...

The study has been undertaken at the University of Adelaide and it has been running for ten years. The focus is with how gold can be dissolved, dispersed and re-concentrated into nuggets by the ...

You may have a pile of old or broken electronics in your home and are not sure what to do with them. In this edition of Going Green, you'll learn what you can do with those electronics and how one ...

Every holiday season, our houses fill with upgraded gadgets and the promise that we’ll deal with the old stuff later.

State officials announced its e-waste program resulted in more than 11.5 million pounds of electronics being recycled in the 2020 cycle. That amounts to 1.1 pounds per Michigan resident, or 20 percent ...