The annual survey of electronics scrap processors: E-Scrap News' authoritative-and indispensable- summary of the e-scrap industry. (Resource Recycling/Leineweber)

 

In the sequel to his description of e-scrap processing in China, Adam Minter gives us a first-hand look at the policies, concrete strides and some stumbling blocks in  China's nationwide recycling efforts. Will new Chinese processors be competing for U.S. e-scrap? (Resource Recycling)

(Comment:  China on the Horizon) 

Popular press articles laser on Guiyu. (BBC News Technology)

 

Honda teamed up with the Japan Metals & Chemicals Co. to extract rare earth metals from batteries and used parts in Honda products in a mass-production process. (Waste Management World)

 

 Not recycling, but plastics gasification and pyrolization are emerging as alternatives to landfilling. (Waste Management World)

   

(Dodson, Hunt, Parker, Yang, Clark)

Improving aluminum recycling: A survey of sorting and impurity removal technologies (Gaustad, Olivetti, Kirchain)

Inductively Removable Assembly Bonding  (Patent)

Epoxy Acid Thermoset Resins and Composites that can be Hot-Fashioned and Recycled.  (Patent)

Recycled Composite Materials and Related Methods (Patent)