Tin from e-waste: ITA meets with bioleaching R&D team

Nov 18, 2021

More than a third of all tin is used in electronics every year. Although around of a third of all tin is recycled, more could be done to recover the metal from waste circuit boards. The Bioremediation Group, part of the Bioscience and Biotechnology Engineering...

E-waste tin recovery success for EnviroLeach

Jun 25, 2021

Canadian e-waste recycler EnviroLeach have released new results showing that their environmentally friendly, cost-efficient process consistently recovers over four fifths of tin contained in circuit boards. The processed concentrate from crushed boards had an average...

Bacteria recover tin from e-waste

Dec 17, 2020

A team at Coventry University, UK have demonstrated the potential to recover tin from e-waste using bacteria. The team’s initial results demonstrate that tin recovery from a printed circuit board (PCB) sample can reach 100%. E-waste is the fastest growing waste...

EnviroLeach recovers tin from e-waste

Dec 1, 2020

EnviroLeach is a Vancouver based company that recover metals from e-waste using a water-based solution. This month, the company announced a new technological advancement that allows cost-effective extraction of tin from end-of-life printed circuit board assemblies...