As the digital age accelerates, the world is facing a mounting challenge: electronic waste. Driven by rapid advancements in AI and internet-based technologies, discarded phones, laptops, and other ...
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There’s Gold Trapped in Your iPhone – And Chemists Have Found a Safe New Way to Extract It
In 2022, humans produced an estimated 62 million tonnes of electronic waste – enough to fill more than 1.5 million garbage trucks. This was up 82% from 2010 and is expected to rise to 82 million ...
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Gold extraction from cyanide: New tech boosts precious metal recovery by recycling toxin
Australian scientists have a new solution for gold: a process that recycles toxic cyanide and boosts gold recovery.
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 ...
The company has partnered with Apple, Tiffany and Co., and Canadian jewelry company Mejuri, which have agreed to buy metals sourced from legacy mine sites and help fund restoration efforts.
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