Directeur de Recherche au CEA (IRAMIS/NIMBE de Saclay) et Professeur invité à NTU/ERI@N (Singapour), Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) The ideal, from the point of ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — RecycleForce on Thursday demonstrated a new technology designed to recover rare earth elements from electronic waste. Rare earth elements are essential to nearly every aspect of ...

While the proper handling of our e‑waste could have been a story of opportunity, it is unfortunate that, as things currently ...

U.N. agencies have warned that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further. The agencies were referring to “e-waste,” which is ...

Urban mining offers a sustainable solution for resource recovery, transforming e-waste into valuable materials and supporting ...

A team of researchers including Rice University’s James Tour and Shichen Xu has developed an ultrafast, one-step method to recover rare earth elements (REEs) from discarded magnets using an innovative ...

Your smartphone begins life neatly packed into a well-designed box. Chances are it will end its days in a more ignominious manner. Assuming it doesn’t end up rattling around in a junk drawer, it will ...

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 ...

Jack Cartwright explores the material value hidden in the UK’s discarded electronics and the carbon savings that proper ...