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MIT/NCER Study on Electronics Recycling calculates about 2/3 of whole units of used electronics in the U.S. were collected, yet only 8.5% were exported.
ISRI welcomes the report: CAER questions the data...more (MIT/NCER)
E-Waste map shows national volumes, International Flows: Each country's e-wastenumbers and its rules on disposal are mapped interactively in a StEP/UN study. China and the U.S. were responsible for nearly ½ the world's total, but U.S. generates 29.8 kilos per person and China 5.4 kilos. Emerging nations overtake West in dumping electronics trash....more (StEP Initiative/UN)
Mechanical Process for Flat Screens announced by Electrical Waste Recycling Group, Ltd.. as first in the world safe from mercury hazard. Hand disassembly takes 15 minutes; mechanical rate is 6 seconds...more (Recycling Today)
Ghost Weight, slipping through certification cracks, the CRT glass conundrum and other eye-openers featured in an interview with Bob Erie of E-World Online....more (About.com)
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Patent Applications
A Hydrometallurgical process to recover platinum group metals at high purity with limited waste and environmental impact....more
A hydrometallurgical method to reclaim precious metals from electronic scrap using successive separations and staged extraction liquids...more
An adsorptive ball and a flow-through continuous deionization process for recovering precious metals...more
A process in which precious metals in nonferrous slag are concentrated and, at the same time, precious metals can be recovered from mobile phones wireboards and spent autocatalysts ...more
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