Ireland’s University College Cork is leading a research project that manages to reclaim over 95% of recycled copper, aluminium, steel and solder from the e-scrap waste stream by combining two patented recycling methods.  Parties involved in the RecEOL project confirm that the breakthrough process exceeds the current recovery rates of 70-80%.

A project in Europe seeks to scale up a new technique for recovering metals from printed circuit boards and other electronic components.

Our cities are awash with hidden gold, quite literally, as a number of academic and institutional bodies unite for a new urban mining project.

​It is a first world problem - what to do with your old electronics when you upgrade? Stick them in a drawer or toss them in the bin? In our gadget-obsessed society, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) is one of the fastest growing waste streams. Every year millions of tonnes of electronics are thrown away and with them the valuable metal components, like copper, gold, silver, copper, solder, steel and critical metals such as indium and tantalum.