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

WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwired - Sep 9, 2015) - The Silver Institute today released "Silver Scrap: The Forgotten Fundamental," a report produced by Metals Focus, the London-based independent precious ...

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.

Itronics Inc., Reno, Nevada, has announced it has increased per-melt silver bullion production by 24 percent using e-scrap as a refining melt ingredient. The company says it continues to expand silver ...

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 ...