Birdseye View of E-Cycling Equipment:  White paper touches on processing, conveying, sorting and separation equipment in current use by recyclers...more (Pace Butler) 

High-Capacity Mobile Shredder:  Sims has introduced a new mobile shredder that destroys more than 1200 hard drives a day at customer's...more (Recycling International)

Recycling Bins Have Your Number: New recycling bins in the City of London track smart phones of passers-by to gather advertising data.  Protests have stopped use of the experimental technology, but its out there...more (Quartz)

ISRI Says HR 2791 Fatally Flawed:  ISRI argues the resubmitted electronics recycling bill restricts exports.  It will hurt recycling, undermine Government initiatives, restrain competition and stunt US job creation...more (ISRI)

India: Opportunity and Challenge:  New report projects 2.15 million tons of e-scrap by 2018.  Handling capability is about 30% of production and needs scaling up.  E-waste recycling revenue estimated around US$1.5 billion in 2013 and projected to double by 2018...more (Research and Markets)  

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Recovering Copper:  Two strategies to recover copper from printed circuit boards using life cycle assessment methodology...more (Elsevier)

Cuprous Chloride Synthesis: to simultaneously recover silver and palladium without using acids or strong oxidants...more (Elsevier)

Waste Electric and Electronic Toys:  Sampled and characterized by content to determine feasibility of economic recovery...more (Elsevier)

Sorting Recycled Polymers:  High-resolution near infra-red devices to evaluate substitution ratio of recycled polymers...more (Elsevier)

Using Heated Water-soluble Ionic Liquids:  to separate electronic components and recover solder from printed circuit boards...more  (Elsevier)

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