THE CHALLENGE In the US, consumers alone dispose of some 3.2 million tonnes of e-waste annually; more than 80% of this ends up as waste, contributing >70% of all toxic metals in U.S. landfills. In a bid to tackle this wastage, BlueOak Resources, USA announced in July 2014 that they had selected Tetronics’ technology for their national project to sustainably recover precious metals from electronics waste (e-waste), one of the world’s fastest

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