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 ...

The Australian mining company Lithium Universe Limited has acquired exclusive global rights to the University of Edinburgh technology for extracting gold and copper from electronic waste. This is ...

London - The U.K.'s Royal Mint, the country's official coinmaker, has opened a factory that will extract gold from e-waste to reduce its reliance on traditional mining and encourage more sustainable ...

According to a latest report from the South China Morning Post, a viral phenomenon has dubbed a Guangdong man the "Alchemist" of the digital age. Qiao, a professional scrap metal refiner from Huizhou, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A novel method developed by a Cornell-led research team offers a dual solution to two pressing environmental problems: e-waste ...

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 chemists and materials scientists at the National University of Singapore, working with colleagues from Manchester University, in the U.K., and Guangdong University of Technology, in China, ...

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Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. 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 ...

An aerogel made from old milk can extract highly pure gold nuggets from discarded computer motherboards. Discarded electronics, known as e-waste, often contain large amounts of gold and other heavy ...