One 2008 study calculated that one ton of mobile phones without batteries contains about 130kg of copper, 3.5kg of silver, 340 grams of gold.

A research team from Tsinghua University in Beijing has unveiled a powerful new technique to extract hazardous and valuable metals from industrial wastewater, using an unconventional method that ...

E-waste has valuable metals, but recycling is dirty and harmful. A new natural method can safely recover metals and make them ...

Korea imports 95% of its core minerals such as lithium, nickel, and rare earths. Rare earths, in particular, are characterized by chemical, electrical, magnetic, and luminescent properties that can be ...

(a) Cu 2+ concentration change under different electrodeposition batches, (b) image of Cu recovered from TE&SF electrodeposition, (c) electric energy and specific energy consumption during ...

Sims Metal has more than 200 facilities throughout the U.S. and operates in over 15 countries, but it’s the Chesapeake facility that now features some of the latest and greatest technology in ...

Under the direction of Professor Huijuan Liu, a research team at Tsinghua University has created a novel electrochemical system that holds the potential to transform the recovery of metal from ...

recirculating, which takes up valuable production capacity and creates metal dust that’s lost in the dust collection system; screening, which works well with larger fractions, but you still lose ...

The recycling and recovery of metals from spent alkaline and zinc‐carbon batteries are emerging as pivotal processes in the sustainable management of battery waste. These processes involve a sequence ...