In Uganda, end-of-life cell phones are collected before being shipped for recycling.
Tech companies are seeing boosted demand for environmental leadership, and e-scrap management concerns continue to mark developing countries. An enterprise in Europe is working to help out on both fronts.
A metals company will expand capacity at a Swedish copper smelter that consumes substantial volumes of printed circuit boards.
A Canadian e-scrap technology company has received over $700,000 after pitching its hydrometallurgical process on a reality TV show.
Global e-scrap flows have helped China dominate lithium-ion battery recycling but have hampered similar efforts in North America, according to a recently published report.
This story has been updated.
Bathroom doors, a water cooler handle, a refrigerator – their surfaces carried lead, cadmium and other hazardous metals, according to studies at two e-scrap facilities.
Startup EnviroLeach has raised its precious metals yield capabilities and has moved forward on developing new e-scrap processing plants.
Several minerals used in electronics were recently deemed critical to the economic and national security of the U.S.
Sellers of scrap circuit boards have seen lower price quotes in recent weeks.
A project in Europe seeks to scale up a new technique for recovering metals from printed circuit boards and other electronic components.
Ronin8’s sonic separation equipment.
Ronin8, which uses sonic technology to process low-grade circuit boards into a higher-value, smelter-ready material, is looking to scale up operations.