Sensor-based processing systems are common, but this is a new speedsorter. The challenge for recyclers is to process light materials, especially aluminum and magnesium, and identify aluminum alloys. Ocean Insight has developed a modular solution that can be easily configured. Called the SpeedSorter, the solution uses laser-induced fracture spectroscopy (LIBS) to quickly determine the composition …
How Miners face supply chain restructuring to meet US EV credit deadline? Washington’s growing financial support for companies that produce metals used in electric vehicles may not bear fruit if the federal government restructures the licensing process for mines, investors, executives and advisers told Reuters. President Joe Biden last week awarded $2.8 billion to new US miners of …
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At a scrapyard near Israel’s Gaza Strip, thousands of old batteries are piling up – one of many such sites in the strip set to be reduced environmental factors that define daily life. These batteries – assembled outdoors and slowly degraded – come from old solar power and UPS backup systems, precious resources Gazans use …
Larvae of moths that eat plsastic. Two substances found in the water of waxworms – the larvae of moths that eat the wax made by bees to build honey – quickly break down common types of plastic, researchers said on Tuesday, in a breakthrough can in the world fight against plastic pollution. The researchers said …
