Recycling in the US: An Off-Again, On-Again Love Affair summarizes tensions between: regulations and the unanticipated dynamics they cause; "big trash" and the shuttering of thousands of small landfills; false crises and the power of publicity; domestic processing vs. exports; single-stream vs. separation; hand-sorting and automation; energy efficiency of rural vs. urban systems; quality demanded by manufacturers and purity of recycled materials; profitability vs. public interest...(ars technica by John Timmer)

 How EPA supported "Big Trash" and killed small landfills. Federal regulations leave industry giants in a stronger position to compete against smaller operators.The smart money got it right fifteen years ago...(Chicago Tribune)

BAN Introduces Unannounced Inspections to verify compliance with its e-Stewards certification program...(Recycling Today)

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Recovering Electrode Material from Lithium Batteries, first dissolving the resin then oxidizing the carbon reducing in a molten salt of lithiu  m chloride...(U.S. Patent; Kakuta et al) 

Pyrolysis to Recycle Printed Circuit Boards by purifying and concentrating.  Process gasses are recovered for fuels or chemical materials...(US Patent; Hsieh-Sen Wu)

Recovering Metals from Metal/Plastic Waste using etching and washing solutions from electronics manufacturers with an ion exchange process...(U.S. Patent; Antonio Celi)

Recovering Unoxidized Metals from Organic Insulated Metallic Scrap by decomposing organic insulation in a heated pressure vessel...(U.S. Patent; Albert B. Baker)