Toyota, Partners Recycle Nickel Back Into Hybrid Batteries
The photo shows Nickel recovered from a nickel-metal hydride battery. Toyota Motor Corp. and Sumitomo Metal Mining Co.…
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Japan Looks for Rare Earth Alternatives
For the workers at Re-Tem Corporation in Tokyo, one person's trash is certainly another's treasure. They are one…
Mitsubishi Materials eying rare earth recycling
Nikkei reported that Mitsubishi Materials Corporation has embarked on full scale efforts to develop technology that can recover…
Schott’s Vocab: Urban Mining
Commenting on a recent Japanese drive to encourage the recycling of old cellphones, Tim Hornyak highlighted the term…
The dead gadget glutton
Our toys and devices are amazing -- until they're obsolete. That's bad news for the planet, but good…
Pepsi’s Dream Machine
Source: greenbiz.com With the goal of boosting the nation's beverage-container recycling rate by nearly 50 percent in the…
How Much E-Waste is Out There?
We know that the popularity of urban mining has skyrocketed in the past decade, but the sheer amount…
How Urban Mining Works
You might not know it but there are veins of precious minerals that are richer than any goldmine,…