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By rr_test_admin, 19 November, 2020

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[caption id="attachment_14875" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Obsolete electronics gathered for recycling. Figures show a modest increase in recovery and a decrease in generation were responsible for the recycling rate increase. | penofoto/Shutterstock[/caption] After declining for multiple years and then remainin
By rr_test_admin, 19 November, 2020

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[caption id="attachment_14874" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Scientist holds a beaker with solution in a lab. Research into a self-healable, recyclable PCB material was published in Science Advances. | totojang1977/Shutterstock[/caption] Researchers at the University of Colorado have developed a thin circuit board material, designed
By rr_test_admin, 17 September, 2020

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[caption id="attachment_14481" align="aligncenter" width="900"]E-scrap piled for recycling Researchers found that mobile shredding of hard drives and other small electronics exposes workers to airborne and surface metals dust, as is the case with in-plant shredding. | Huguette Roe/Shutterstock[/caption] Researchers have discovered that
By rr_test_admin, 11 September, 2020
[caption id="attachment_14454" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Urban Mining Company building exterior Urban Mining Co. operates a magnet recovery facility just south of Austin. | Courtesy of Urban Mining Co.[/caption] Urban Mining Co., which uses an innovative process to recycle rare earth magnets, has received financial backing as part of the U.S.
By rr_test_admin, 11 September, 2020

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[caption id="attachment_8786" align="aligncenter" width="932"]circuit board A number of research projects looking into metal recovery from circuit boards received funding recently. | Borhax/Shutterstock[/caption] Research focused on recovering precious metals from printed circuit boards received funding from the REMADE Institute.
By rr_test_admin, 13 August, 2020

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[caption id="attachment_14261" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Mobile devices for e-scrap processing. Researchers announced advancements in rare earth element recovery using a natural protein.| vilax/Shutterstock[/caption] Researchers developed a way to recycle e-scrap into a protective coating for steel.
By rr_test_admin, 16 July, 2020
[caption id="attachment_14084" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Computers in a retail setting. Second quarter PC shipments this year rose 2.8% compared with the second quarter of 2019. | joyfull/Shutterstock[/caption] PC shipments were up almost 3% during the second quarter of the year compared with 2019.
By rr_test_admin, 4 June, 2020
[caption id="attachment_13798" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Fire alarm on a wall. A recent study found thermal events occurring at all stages of the WEEE collection and processing chain. | nongningstudio/Shutterstock[/caption] A new report notes more and more fires are breaking out in electronics collection and processing facilities
By rr_test_admin, 14 May, 2020
[caption id="attachment_13665" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A recent report suggests that moves toward refurbishment and reuse in the data center sector could reduce greenhouse gas impacts by as much as 24% or more. | Maximumm/Shutterstock[/caption] ITAD service providers are increasingly communicating the carbon impact of refurbis