If you have old electronics sitting around your home, you may be able to recycle them for cash for the precious metals they contain. However, the quantities are small, so it usually makes sense if you ...

If you open almost any modern gadget you'll almost definitely strike a tiny bit of gold. Thanks to the precious metal's high conductivity and resistance to corrosion it's used on printed circuit board ...

The study has been undertaken at the University of Adelaide and it has been running for ten years. The focus is with how gold can be dissolved, dispersed and re-concentrated into nuggets by the ...

Researchers have developed an environmentally friendly method for recycling and purifying metals. Using gold earrings from a pawnshop in Gothenburg and biodiesel from the nearest filling station, the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Electronic waste poses one of the fastest growing waste challenges worldwide, with over 50 million tons generated annually. Yet hidden in obsolete devices lies substantial amounts ...

Update July 3 12:10PM ET: This article was originally published on April 23, 2018 and has been updated to include video. There's 80 times as much gold in one ton of cellphones as there is in a gold ...

Swiss commodities firm says it recovered 27,000 metric tons of copper for recycling in 2020. Glencore says its smelter in Quebec, Canada, helps make it “North America's largest processor of electronic ...

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