A team of researchers including Rice University's James Tour and Shichen Xu has developed an ultrafast, one-step method to ...

Conventional rare earth recycling is energy-intensive and generates toxic waste. The new approach uses flash Joule heating (FJH), which rapidly raises material temperatures to thousands of degrees in ...

"We want to make sure that everyone is aware of how they are contributing to this." Young entrepreneur develops game-changing ...

Metal sourcing and recovery technology company Metallium, originally based in Texas, recently secured two new U.S. sites for ...

A Ph.D. researcher may have cracked a code that could ultimately benefit businesses, consumers, and public health — and his ...

New Zealand risks missing out on the "land grab" for e-waste and is paying the price as it sends phones, laptops and ...

A UK electronics manufacturer is urging tech manufacturers to embrace recyclable electronics to stop fires at waste recycling ...

As the saying goes, “if it can’t be grown, it has to be mined”– but what about all the metals that have already been wrested ...

Electronic waste (e-waste) refers to discarded electronic devices such as smartphones, laptops, televisions, and other consumer or industrial electronics that are no longer functional or needed. These ...

For many people, old electronics quickly fall out of sight and out of mind, sitting in a box in the back of the closet when they make their next upgrades. When they’re finally thrown out, the devices ...

Where do old electronics go? Some people may end up with a pile of outdated cell phones in a drawer or even tossed in the bin on trash day. Eventually, these neglected devices end up in city landfills ...