Researchers have developed a new type of material that's 10 times more efficient at extracting gold from e-waste than previous adsorbents. Developed by chemists and materials scientists at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A novel method developed by a Cornell-led research team offers a dual solution to two pressing environmental problems: e-waste ...

Scientists have figured out a way to recycle important metals trapped inside electrical waste. Using textiles, researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have improved the ...

An interdisciplinary team of experts in green chemistry, engineering and physics at Flinders University in Australia has developed a safer and more sustainable approach to extract and recover gold ...

ETH Zurich researchers have developed a sustainable method to recover gold from electronic waste. The method uses a sponge made from denatured whey proteins that selectively adsorb gold ions. The ...

A video of a Chinese man extracting gold worth approximately 42 million Korean won from discarded mobile phone SIM cards has gone viral online. According to a report by the South China Morning Post, ...