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An interdisciplinary team of experts in green chemistry, engineering and physics at Flinders University in Australia has developed a safer and more sustainable approach to extract and recover gold ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese researchers have discovered a fast, low-cost and environmentally cleaner method for extracting gold from electronic waste, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers in Switzerland have developed an innovative method to extract pure gold from electronic waste using whey, a ...

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 ...

An interdisciplinary team of experts in green chemistry, engineering and physics at Flinders University in Australia has developed a safer and more sustainable approach to extract and recover gold ...