With the increasing population worldwide, waste generation is multiplying uncontrollably. Municipalities find it challenging to manage such wastes for further separation, recycling, transformation and ...
The rapid increase in global e-waste generation, coupled with the shortening life cycles of electronic products, has intensified the environmental challenges associated with household e-waste. This ...
Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. The World Economic Forum recently reported that global electronic waste (e-waste) generation has exceeded 65 million tons annually.
A nontoxic separation process recovers critical minerals from electronic scrap waste. There's some irony in the fact that devices that seem indispensable to modern life -- mobile phones, personal ...
The sugar industry is one of the most important agro-industrial sectors in Iran, generating substantial amounts of organic waste including sugarcane bagasse (SCB), bagasse fly ash (BFA), filter mud ...
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 ...
In the dark corners of your attic shelves or the depths of your desk drawers likely sits a collection of defunct laptops, cameras, and gaming consoles. The phone you may be reading this on will ...
Your smartphone begins life neatly packed into a well-designed box. Chances are it will end its days in a more ignominious manner. Assuming it doesn’t end up rattling around in a junk drawer, it will ...