We’ve been hearing a lot about how the future of electronics will involve stretchy circuit boards, or circuits you can glue to your skin. In this video, you can see one crucial ingredient in ...

Circuit boards still go routinely unrecycled in discarded household and office equipment, suffering a similar fate as many of those found in vehicles. Diesel sputters, palladium soars. Gold can almost ...

Using a proprietary chemical process pioneered by Canadian firm Excir, England's The Royal Mint has begun mining old circuit boards from electronic devices for gold and converting what's harvested ...

Once it's absorbed as much as it can, the sponge is removed and then heated, to make a gold nugget. (Image credit: Advanced Materials, First published: 23 January 2024, DOI: (10.1002/adma ...

A product-material-product loop (PMP) established and operated by Japanese companies Panasonic Corp. and Mitsubishi Materials Corp. has recovered more than 8,000 tons of gold, silver, and copper ...

It plans to process up to 4,000 tonnes of printed circuit boards from e-waste a year in its Precious Metals Recovery factory. It says the new factory provides a more sustainable source of gold and ...