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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