“Knowing how much gold and other precious metals go into these type of electronics devices, being able to recover them in a way where you can selectively capture the metal you want – in this ...
A method has emerged to efficiently adsorb and recover gold, a valuable precious metal, from discarded electronic waste. Alireza Abbaspourrad, a professor at Cornell University in the U.S., noted ...
Electronics waste is a potential gold mine, with an estimated ton of e-waste containing at least 10 times more gold than a ton of ore. With e-waste expected to reach 80 million metric tons by 2030, ...