For more than a decade we have been reporting on a radical idea from the University of Birmingham that makes recycling rare earth magnets a real possibility. Now that idea has left the laboratory and ...

When plastic waste breaks down into the smallest fragments, less than 1 micrometer wide—or 1,000 times finer than human hair—it can’t be detected at wastewater treatment plants. But researchers have ...

A magnetic powder that can rapidly suck out all the microplastics in water could be used by water treatment plants to better remove the contaminants. At present, most of these plants can remove only ...

Mkango Resources and the University of Birmingham have commissioned a commercial plant for recycling rare earth magnets. The ...

Goudsmit Magnetics of Waalre, the Netherlands, has introduced a rotating magnetic separator designed for the ferrous-metal-free processing of lithium-ion powder intended for batteries. The company ...

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