Researchers in China have introduced a room-temperature process that extracts over 98% of gold from discarded electronics, ...
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There’s Gold Trapped in Your iPhone – And Chemists Have Found a Safe New Way to Extract It
In 2022, humans produced an estimated 62 million tonnes of electronic waste – enough to fill more than 1.5 million garbage trucks. This was up 82% from 2010 and is expected to rise to 82 million ...
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Chinese scientists recover 98% of gold from old phones in 20 minutes at low cost
Chinese scientists have developed a rapid e-waste mining method that extracts gold in under 20 minutes at around one-third of ...
New method can extract precious metals from old mobile phones, computers and home appliances in less than 20 minutes.
In 2022, humans produced an estimated 62 million tonnes of electronic waste – enough to fill more than 1.5 million garbage trucks. This was up 82 per cent from 2010 and is expected to rise to 82 ...
A new method for recovering high-purity gold from discarded electronics is paying back US$50 for every dollar spent, according to researchers – who found the key gold-filtering substance in ...
A team of scientists have penned a new study that details an interesting way to collect valuable minerals from electronic waste, and the method includes creating a sponge from dairy waste. The sponge ...
Tackling the issues: Electronic waste is a growing problem. Each year, consumers produce millions of tons of used and broken electronics. Only a portion of the metals they contain are recycled because ...
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