A new flexible, self-healing polymer with liquid metal droplets can replace circuit boards, allowing easy recycling and reuse ...

Gold has properties that make it useful in electronic devices, but mining old cell phones and computers for the metal isn't ...

Late September brought good and bad news for recyclers of nonferrous metals in terms of consuming facility activity.

An average smartphone contains about 0.034 grams of gold, tiny in each device, but millions of phones make those bits add up ...

A new plant-based polymer developed by researchers at Lithuania's Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) offers an alternative to petroleum-based plastics, with numerous added benefits. The smart ...

A busy day talking recycling -- and everything else -- in Annapolis for the European Union's U.S. ambassador, a crowd rallies ...

Electronic waste is piling up around the world at a rate that far outpaces recycling efforts , partly because it's so costly and time-consuming to ...

India’s growing challenge of discarded electronics, lithium-ion batteries, and rare earth materials is also a potential ...

Turning Electronic Waste Into Art, Faces Into Identity Deconstruction. By Yongwoo Lee This year in London, Lingfei Shen's ...

Automation is also tricky: robots are good at putting together a specific item but struggle to recognise and take apart the ...

In the digital age that is fast evolving it is clear that technology has become a significant component of any business ...