«Engines of change: Scientists
recover rare earths from electric and hybrid vehicle motors.»
«We're hoping that starts to change and that the United States becomes less dependent on foreign countries to
recover rare earth elements.»
Honda and Mitsubishi are
recovering rare earths from batteries and air conditioner compressors, respectively.
Not exact matches
Disassembling 100,000 devices, Daisy can
recover a host of materials, including 11 kilograms of
rare earths, 770 kilograms of cobalt, and 1900 kilograms of aluminum.
«There are a lot of ways to go about getting the
rare -
earth elements out of e-waste, and some of them are very effective, but some create unwanted by - products and the
recovered elements still need to be incorporated into a new application,» said Ott.
Part of that research explored methods for extracting
rare earth elements from ores found outside of China and for
recovering those elements from recycled materials.
«This method not only
recovers high - purity
rare earths, it also
recovers other marketable materials.
A new
rare -
earth magnet recycling process developed by researchers at the Critical Materials Institute (CMI) dissolves magnets in an acid - free solution and
recovers high purity
rare earth elements.
Product designers need to ensure that materials such as
rare earth metals in products ranging from solar panels and wind turbine magnets to mobile phones can still be
recovered easily when they reach the end of their life.»