A new technique enables the use of, for example, cooking oil from fast-food restaurants to dissolve and separate silver. The process requires light and diluted hydrogen peroxide. The technique makes ...

Electronic waste contains precious metals, which can be safely dissolved and separated with recyclable fatty acids, without the use of corrosive substances. A new technique enables the use of, for ...

Silver can now be extracted ecologically and more efficiently than before. Researchers extracted silver from a process stream using an environmentally friendly ion exchange technique. The technique ...

Scientists from the University of Helsinki and the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland have found silver from electronic waste can be recovered using common kitchen ingredients like vegetable oil and ...

Australian recycling developer Iondrive says that its IONSolv platform achieved more than 85% silver extraction in initial bench-scale testing.