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Demand for rare-earth metals is skyrocketing, so we're creating a safer, cleaner way to recover them from old phones and laptops

  • Written by Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo, Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University
Demand for rare-earth metals is skyrocketing, so we're creating a safer, cleaner way to recover them from old phones and laptopsShutterstock

Rare-earth metals are critical to the high-tech society we live in as an essential component of mobile phones, computers and many other everyday devices. But increasing demand and limited global supply means we must urgently find a way to recover these metals efficiently from discarded products.

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