Scientists have figured out a way to recycle important metals trapped inside electrical waste. Using textiles, researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have improved the ...

A big part of the recycling of electronic equipment is the recovery of metals such as gold. Usually the printed circuit boards and other components are shredded, sorted, and then separated. But ...

Evotus plans to start a plant in Raleigh, North Carolina, to recover investment-grade gold from e-scrap. The company raised about $1.2 million to build a 15,000-square-foot facility. The center will ...

In a recent paper published in the Journal of Chemical Engineering Journal, researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology announced that they have created a technology that uses ...

At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool ...