Taiwan is the producer of more electronics per capita than any other country, and now they are expanding their electronics recycling efforts to keep up. At 42 percent, their national household recycling rate is one of the highest in the world, and their industrial waste recycling rate is nearly double that at 80 percent. In [...]
Photo via Flickr It’s no secret that precious metals are a finite resource here on Earth—it’s a big contributor to making them all the more valuable. But as miners continue to dig deeper and deeper, some firms are instead turning their sights to the sky. Two firms plan to conduct prospecting missions to passing asteroids [...]
Italian company Bio-on has reportedly developed a new polymer that could reshape the electronics industry and reduce the environmental impact of electronic scrap. “Life After Plastic” A combination of biodegradable plastics, carbon nanoparticles, and grapheme nanotubes, the new polymer was designed to dissolve completely in river water within weeks. And because it [...]