An curved arrow pointing right. One ton of circuit boards from old e-waste can contain 100 times more gold than a ton of ore mined from the ground. Now, scrappers like Wade Crawley in Sydney, ...

There's treasure in trash — literally. Discarded computers, circuit boards, and other electronic waste contain valuable metals like gold. Now, breakthrough research could make extracting gold easier ...

Chinese researchers have discovered a fast, low-cost and environmentally cleaner method for extracting gold ...

ETH Zurich researchers have developed a sustainable method to recover gold from electronic waste. The method uses a sponge made from denatured whey proteins that selectively adsorb gold ions. The ...

Let's be real here. Most of us toss old phones and computers into a drawer and forget they exist. Some go straight to the landfill. Here's the thing: you're literally throwing away gold mines. Not ...