Gold has properties that make it useful in electronic devices, but mining old cell phones and computers for the metal isn't ...

The partnership will expand sustainable recycling solutions for lithium-ion batteries, plastics, solar panels, and ...

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 ...

An average smartphone contains about 0.034 grams of gold, tiny in each device, but millions of phones make those bits add up ...

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 ...

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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 researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland has made a discovery that they say could turn recycling e-waste into a literal goldmine. The researchers devised a novel way to extract precious ...

In the dark corners of your attic shelves or the depths of your desk drawers likely sits a collection of defunct laptops, cameras, and gaming consoles. The phone you may be reading this on will ...

You may have a pile of old or broken electronics in your home and are not sure what to do with them. In this edition of Going Green, you'll learn what you can do with those electronics and how one ...

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