If you drop off an old cell phone for recycling, the circuit board inside it will probably be taken out, packed in a crate, and shipped off to a smelter in Europe or Asia who heats it up to more ...

Affected by a sharp order drop in November, HannStar Board and Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE) have both reduced their annual PCB shipments guidance for 2008 by 10%.

Mining the silver from circuit boards is also a business model being pursued by Reno, Nevada-based Itronics Inc. (See page S38 of the 2019 Scrap Metals Supplement that accompanies this issue for a ...

Using a proprietary chemical process pioneered by Canadian firm Excir, England's The Royal Mint has begun mining old circuit boards from electronic devices for gold and converting what's harvested ...

High-fiber computing Dissolving circuit boards in water sounds better than shredding and burning They're easier to recycle, and chips come right off. Will they take off?