Credit: Maurizio Targhetta
Market analysts say 2018 could be a golden year – or perhaps a silver and platinum one – for the prices of precious metals recovered from scrap electronics.
Credit: Maurizio Targhetta
Market analysts say 2018 could be a golden year – or perhaps a silver and platinum one – for the prices of precious metals recovered from scrap electronics.
Credit: Joao Estevao A. de Freitas
The value of recovered circuit boards has risen in recent months, much to the delight of e-scrap reclaimers.
Credit: Pekka Niemi/Kuusakoski
Finnish recycling company Kuusakoski has refined its method for processing a key component of MRI machines and is now producing distinct streams of high-grade metals.
Dell has recycled e-plastics from end-of-life devices back into new electronics for years. Now, the global technology company is doing the same thing for gold.
A Houston company’s rare earth element recovery technologies could mean another future revenue stream for electronics processors.
Scientists in India are working to refine the process of using microbes to extract metals from printed circuit boards.
Larry Reaugh, American Manganese
Sims Recycling Solutions’ consolidation of U.S. e-scrap shredding operations yielded financial benefits and more clearly drew a line between its shredding and reuse activities. That was one takeaway from a recently released annual report.
Joe Pickard speaks at the Resource Recycling Conference.
Ferrous and non-ferrous metals recovered from electronics and other sources have been volatile of late. Such uncertainty could continue as China considers limits on taking in some metal grades.
Scientists have developed an environmentally friendly way to recover rare earth elements from shredded electronic scrap without the need for pre-sorting of materials.