Scientists manage to dissolves silver without using cyanide or other harsh chemicals, enabling safe recycling that promotes urban mining.

A new technique enables the use of fatty acids—for example, those found in cooking oil from fast-food restaurants—to dissolve and separate silver. The process requires light and diluted hydrogen ...

For the past three years, Mark Schwede has been coming to Ranch Town Recycling in San Jose’s Willow Glen neighborhood, dropping off cans and bottles every couple of months to make a few extra bucks.

This week the United Nations released a report on the problems surrounding the recycling of electronic scrap, known as e-waste. Millions of tons of old computers and phones on the scrap heaps of the ...

The Texas-based recycler plans to establish a distribution and processing hub for nonferrous metals in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. W. Silver Recycling is headquartered in El Paso, Texas. W. Silver ...

Tuesday night I spent commercial time doing my annual piggy bank "roll up." Yup, I am one of those people who dump their spare change into a large glass piggy bank and once a year pull it out and roll ...