This article appeared in the September 2024 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. Global growth in uptake of electric vehicles, semiconductors, fuel cells, battery panels, medical devices and other products and components is fueling heightened demand for precious metals. Manufacturers of a diverse range of products favor these metals for their superior electrical conductivity, corrosion resistance,...

This article appeared in the 2024 issue of E-Scrap News. Subscribe today for access to all print content. There’s one very simple, unavoidable reason that global industry is at least eventually going to have to rely more heavily on recycling in order to satisfy its seemingly ever-growing demand for precious metals for its products: Several of the major mining operations around the...