Freeport, New York — At eWorks in Freeport, New York, piles of dusty televisions, personal computers, printers and other old tech are the start of an electronic treasure hunt. "There is a value that ...

In the dark corners of your attic shelves or the depths of your desk drawers likely sits a collection of defunct laptops, cameras, and gaming consoles. The phone you may be reading this on will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A novel method developed by a Cornell-led research team offers a dual solution to two pressing environmental problems: e-waste ...

A collaboration between chemical engineers and animal scientists has created a system for recovering valuable industrial chemicals from animal waste, representing a major step towards circularity and ...

A Chinese man, dubbed 'The Alchemist,' has extracted nearly 200,000 yuan worth of gold from two tonnes of electronic waste, including SIM cards. His viral video showcases a complex chemical process, ...

UB engineering researcher Nirupam Aich set out to study the hazards of electronic waste recycling after learning about illegal shipments of this waste from developed countries, such as the United ...

Volatile fatty acid separation from biowaste. Cattle manure is anaerobically digested in a bioreactor, and the resulting broth is processed with redox-mediated electrodialysis. The volatile fatty ...