Most consumers are guilty of the same habit — filling drawers or closets with devices such as old laptops, cellphones, ...

Discarded electronics can be a gold mine – literally. Researchers have developed an efficient new way to use graphene to recover gold from electronic waste, without needing any other chemicals or ...

Have you ever wondered why companies are so eager for your old electronics? It's not because they want your previous iPhone ...

Metals made up half the world’s electronic trash, or e-waste, in 2022 and were worth $91 billion. Copper, iron, and gold accounted for a big chunk of that value. E-waste also contains aluminum, ...

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

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A team of researchers at ...

By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO, March 24 (Reuters) - Trading house Itochu said on Tuesday it would form a Japanese venture with ...

Did you know that your old laptop computer probably has a small amount of gold hiding inside it? Here's why it's there and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chicago-based Greenway Metal Recycling says it is responding to “shifts in how businesses manage outdated equipment.” ...