A Cornell University-led research team has created a new process to extract 99.9% of the gold from electronic waste to help turn carbon dioxide into useful organic materials. Discarded electronics are ...

Forward-looking: A team of Australian researchers has unveiled a breakthrough method for extracting gold that could dramatically reduce the environmental and health hazards long associated with mining ...

In 2022, humans produced an estimated 62 million tonnes of electronic waste – enough to fill more than 1.5 million garbage trucks. This was up 82 per cent from 2010 and is expected to rise to 82 ...

Extracting gold from ore is a poisonous business. The most common method is cyanide leaching, where cyanide salts in solution are used to suck the gold out from its ore. You get gold, but you also get ...

A new method for recovering high-purity gold from discarded electronics is paying back US$50 for every dollar spent, according to researchers – who found the key gold-filtering substance in ...

A research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, to ...

Tackling the issues: Electronic waste is a growing problem. Each year, consumers produce millions of tons of used and broken electronics. Only a portion of the metals they contain are recycled because ...