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March 23, 2011

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the UK building standards group, reported to the Government that without quick action to recycle rare earths from electronics, the plan to achieve 15% renewable energy will be unattainable. (RecyclingToday)   Meanwhile, a plant under con­struction in Malaysia to refine REM concentrates risks turning the site radioactive. (NY Times) Synergy Recycling’s new scrap processing system raises the bar for separation technology and volume, with higher concentration levels of metals and plastics recovery at the rate of 30 tons of scrap an hour. (Recycling Today) Here are 11 uses for an old PC…each with a techie twist.  (PC World) Note: Elsevier publishes a host of excellent articles, but there is a charge. Application of glass-nonmetals of waste printed circuit boards to produce phenolic moulding compound, Journal of Hazardous Materi­als, Volume 153, Issues 1-2, 1 May 2008, Pages 728-734 Classification of metals and plastics from printed circuit boards (PCB) using air classifier, Chemical Engineering and Processing: Pro­cess Intensification, Volume 47, Issue 4, April 2008

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