Tin Recovery
Recovering tin from processes and products is key to reducing environmental impact and moving towards a circular economy. Tin recovery processes are diverse, and depend on the product from which tin is being recovered and the desired end product. In the past, tin recovery from waste has been overlooked due to the metal making up a very small proportion of consumer waste. As legislative and consumer pressure increases, tin recovery technologies from electronic and other waste is becoming both more innovative and economically viable.
For more information on tin recycling generally, see Tin Recycling.
Aurubis to recover tin from new copper waste processing plant in Belgium
Aurubis’ new advanced sludge processing (ASPA) plant in Beerse, Belgium has officially opened its doors to start production.
The critical role of e-waste recycling
E-waste is an escalating global issue, driven by rapid technological advancements and high turnover of electronic devices. Due to tin’s use in a wide range of electronic devices and its resistance to corrosion, it also represents a growing feedstock for secondary tin...
Tin a target for Audi Environmental Foundation in new recycling research
The Audi Environmental Foundation (AEF), collaborating with the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Germany, is funding a research project focusing on a scalable recycling process. Named as "tweezer technology," this method selectively extracts strategic...
Tin from e-waste: ITA meets with bioleaching R&D team
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...
Aurubis to invest in more efficient tin extraction
Aurubis has announced that it will build a state-of-the-art recycling plant at its Beerse site - previously Metallo - in Belgium. The new plant will process copper anode sludge using a hydrometallurgical process to rapidly extract a variety of metals including tin....
E-waste tin recovery success for EnviroLeach
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
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 stream...
EnviroLeach recovers tin from e-waste
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...