Let's be real here. Most of us toss old phones and computers into a drawer and forget they exist. Some go straight to the landfill. Here's the thing: you're literally throwing away gold mines. Not ...

The consumer electronics market was valued at $1 trillion in 2020 and is expected to grow by a compound annual growth rate of 8 percent between 2021 and 2027, according to a report done by Global ...

New method can extract precious metals from old mobile phones, computers and home appliances in less than 20 minutes.

Chinese researchers have discovered a fast, low-cost and environmentally cleaner method for extracting gold ...

If you open almost any modern gadget you'll almost definitely strike a tiny bit of gold. Thanks to the precious metal's high conductivity and resistance to corrosion it's used on printed circuit board ...

More jewelers, large and small, are using precious metals recovered from electronic waste. By Jessica Bumpus Twelve years ago, Eliza Walter was studying design at high school in England when she ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Electronic waste poses one of the fastest growing waste challenges worldwide, with over 50 million tons generated annually. Yet hidden in obsolete devices lies substantial amounts ...

Flash joule heating is initially used for graphene production to transform food wastes into something useful. However, the modern method has shifted to retrieving important metals from electronic ...

Electronics recycling continues to mean different things to different people, with some putting a heavier emphasis on reconditioning and re-use while others are now focusing on recovering metals, ...

The study has been undertaken at the University of Adelaide and it has been running for ten years. The focus is with how gold can be dissolved, dispersed and re-concentrated into nuggets by the ...