higher precious metal recovery

eWaste is always an interesting area for "Urban Miners"

There are two dominant approaches to recycling today’s used electronics – one is de-manufacturing, which is manually dismantling the electronics in order to utilize the raw materials that are found for recycling and the other is shredding, where the electronics are loaded into large shredders which helps to reduce manual sorting and separation of components.

“Metals have been recycled for thousands of years, but in the last 50 years or so, we’ve seen some interesting developments, particularly in fields using granulation methods to pull out more metals with less effort,” Gregory said.

Some newer methods, such as the ones used by Liquisort, will actually process these metals in a special bath. Located in the Netherlands, Liquisort specializes in the separation of nonferrous metals by using a sustainable, innovated and patented sorting method that makes it possible to sort various metals into clean, separated fractions.  “Liquisort’s bath separates metals with dense water and magnet systems to better the purity of metals.

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