Projects exploring strategies to recover key materials from end-of-life electronics have received funding from the REMADE Institute.
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A major OEM, a reverse logistics firm and a hard drive manufacturer are recovering rare earth magnets from end-of-life hard drives and shipping the metals for new hard drive production.
Dell is working with hard drive manufacturer Seagate and ITAD firm Teleplan on a pilot project that is feeding
With an eye toward demonstrating the variety and amount of metals available from e-scrap, geologists at an English university used a household blender to take a look inside a mobile device.
The University of Plymouth scientists dropped an intact mobile phone into a blender and shredded it int
A North Carolina startup is working to scale up its ability to generate investment-grade gold from e-scrap components.
Evotus is building a plant in Raleigh to recover gold via a chemical dissolution process. Initially, the facility will take in computer processors or other components with over 1,500 grams of gold per ton.
Metals company Boliden recovered copper and precious metals from 95,000 short tons of printed circuit boards in 2018, up 12 percent year over year, according to an annual report.
The European metals mining and refining company recovers metals from printed circuit boards (PCBs) at its Rönnskär sme
Revenue and earnings for global e-scrap processor Sims Recycling Solutions dropped in the second half of 2018 compared with the same period a year earlier.
Sims Recycling Solutions (SRS), the e-scrap arm of Sims Metal Management,
Two government initiatives looking to energize the lithium-ion battery recycling sector have officially launched, offering prize money to recycling entrepreneurs and a dedicated laboratory to house research projects.
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Global economic conditions have helped push up the scrap value of principal metals used in electronics.The major reason for processor smiles is the strong and ongoing surge in the value of palladium
[caption id="attachment_10576" align="alignright" width="300"] Trucks outside ERI's Fresno, Calif. recycling facility.[/caption]
ERI is using machinery with artificial intelligence to sort materials coming out of a shredder.