Interesting Links for 23-08-2020

[andrewducker]

Britain to get first commercial refinery for extracting precious metals from electronic waste

(tags:electronics waste recycling uk )

New IRA: Heathrow arrest of Edinburgh resident part of anti-dissident republican operation

(tags:ira UK Ireland Edinburgh NorthernIreland terrorism )

Comments

[armiphlage]

My factory's electronic waste processor uses electroplating to separate the metals.

We first mutilate the product by drilling holes in it, then our processor shreds it into small pieces and issues us a Certificate of Destruction that we can show to our customers. They then melt it in an electric furnace, and the metal cools into an ingot at the bottom. The slag (mostly glass fibres) goes to municipal landfill. The ingot then gets immersed in tanks of acids, and gradually increasing voltages are applied to drive each metal into solution.

[dewline]

1. Dare we hope this to become a good thing? Hopefully, these are technologies we can adapt to Canadian usages. Import/export logistics is becoming a problem for my country as well, and some of the obstacles to the export processes are far more justifiable than others.

2. This could go so wrong so quickly in any number of ways, can't it?

[andrewducker]

Thank you, that's fascinating!