Sentences with phrase «extracting valuable material»

They would become microscopic factories extracting valuable material from waste, or creating food for the millions.

When such e-waste is exported to places such as Guiyu in China, it ends up in vast recycling centers where laborers earn a pittance smashing, cracking, melting and cooking old electronic goods to extract the valuable materials they hold, ranging from gold to plastics.

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In many developing countries, such regulations are absent or unenforced, allowing recyclers to extract valuable, readily accessible materials while discarding everything else.

Determining the angle under which the electrons escape from the material enables the scientists to extract valuable information on the electronic properties and the complex many - body interactions of the material.

Now researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have developed a process to extract valuable biomolecules from this offal which could be used as antioxidants, prebiotics and even food packaging material.

A pipeline would carry the brine through a series of processes that remove the silica in the brine (it would otherwise foul the works) and then use a series of membranes, filters and adsorption materials to extract valuable elements like lithium.

We looked at what materials could be extracted to reduce it further, whilst making a small profit out of the waste by selling valuable materials on and boosting the island economy and employment of local staff.

Mobile phones contain a range of materials including metals, plastics and several valuable components - such as silver - which can be extracted and re-used.

If the covered lagoon method (pictured) proves to be globally valuable for business, the upshot is a large scale incentive to prevent lagoon flooding or leakage, and the resulting loss of raw material (the poop) needed profit from a waste that, if not carefully retained to extract economic value, offends neighbors, is a potential disease vector (for Avian flu for example) and poses an ecological hazard to downstream waters.