Research teams at Northwestern University have created a new filtering technique for pulling harmful contaminants out of wastewater — while also being able to harvest some of those recovered materials ...

Scientists are tackling one of the trickiest problems in modern waste — electronic junk — and finding surprising value in it. A breakthrough from Carnegie Mellon University's department of chemical ...

Italian company Circular Materials says it recovered two valuable metals from industrial wastewater in what it describes as a major step for cleaner industry in Europe, Waste360 reported. The company ...

As Earth’s climate continues to warm, researchers around the globe are exploring ways to capture CO 2 from the air and store it deep underground. The method transforms CO2 into valuable, ...

Certain types of antique materials have the tendency to increase in value over time. But before you buy, make sure you know ...

When lithium-ion batteries reach the end of their life, they are often collected and processed to recover valuable materials through black mass recycling. The process begins with collecting these ...

A new startup says it can turn dangerous nuclear waste into fresh usable fuel and valuable rare metals and materials, like rhodium and palladium, used in catalytic converters, and krypton-85 and ...

Hard disk drives contain valuable materials that are used in their construction and operation. This includes rare-earth magnetics that are used in the rotary actuator that allows the heads to write ...