Have you ever wondered why companies are so eager for your old electronics? It's not because they want your previous iPhone ...

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 ...

Researchers in Switzerland have developed an innovative method to extract pure gold from electronic waste using whey, a ...

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 ...

In the dark corners of your attic shelves or the depths of your desk drawers likely sits a collection of defunct laptops, cameras, and gaming consoles. The phone you may be reading this on will ...

In context: The Royal Mint, which has been producing British coins since the Middle Ages, is now adapting to a world where physical money is becoming less essential. In an effort to reinvent itself, ...

Swiss scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a method to extract 450 milligrams of 22-carat gold from discarded computer motherboards using a protein derived from whey.

If all 62 million metric tons of electronic waste the world produces in a year were loaded into garbage trucks, they’d encircle the planet bumper to bumper, according to a recent United Nations report ...