CRT Glass Recycling Award: The winner of the prestigious joint CEA ISRI award features a process to melt nuclear waste with glass-forming additives to incorporate nuclear contaminants. .. more (CEA Smartbriefs)

CRT Glass Processing Capacity projected 60% short of CRT supply and stockpiled units, severely challenging CRT management by e-waste processors.  Detailed in a white paper commissioned by Kuusakoski...more (CB&I/Shaw Environmental)

CAER Membership Reaches 115: the Coalition for American Electronics Recycling's membership has more than tripled since it launched in late 2011,  reflecting industry support for the Responsible Electronics Recycling Act....more (Digital Journal)

HP to Recycle E-Waste in Kenya:  HP will partner with East African Compliant Recycling and Deutsche Investitions to collect, separate and dismantle appliances, ICT electronics and mobile phones... more (Biztech Africa) 

CEA 2013 Sustainability Report covers progress in design, packaging, energy efficiency, recycling levels, consumer education... more (Consumer Electronics Association)

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Thermal Decomposition of Printed Circuit Boards from Mobile Phones at heat levels ranging from room temperature to approximately 1100 C; in the presence and absence of oxygen; by pyrolysis and combustion. The objective is to identify compounds emitted under different conditions...more (Elsevier).

Patents and Applications

Rare Earth Minerals and Zirconia Recovered from waste materials by blending powders of the rare earths with ammonium sulfate powder and heating the mixture to form a residue . The residue is dissolved and the rare earths and reactants are separated...more (Patent Application)

Process for Melting Scrap Metal in a furnace with steps to introduce oxygen and control combustion...more (Patent Application)

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