Critical Materials Innovation Hub News

INL seeks to find more efficient way to recycle electronic waste

CMI research led by Idaho National Laboratory is featured in this television story about Electrochemical Recycling Electronic Constituents of Value (E-RECOV), which uses an electrochemical cell to efficiently reclaim valuable metals and rare-earth elements from discarded electronic equipment.

scientists stand in a research laboratory

What to do with your old phone? INL's E-RECOV might have the answer

CMI research led to the technology described in this story from Idaho National Laboratory: What to do with your old phone? INL's E-RECOV might have the answer

image of the E-RECOV system at Faraday Technologies

What to do with your old phone? INL's E-RECOV might have the answer

CMI research led to the technology described in this story from Idaho National Laboratory: What to do with your old phone? INL's E-RECOV might have the answer

American Rare Earths partners on DOE-funded R&D, drills at Wyoming, Arizona projects

Drilling at Halleck Creek in Wyoming. Image from American Rare Earths.

Western Rare Earths joins Critical Materials Institute

Recycling International: Commercial opportunity for water-based rare earths solution

Recycling International ran the Ames Laboratory story about commercialization for a rare earth recycling technology developed by CMI

India Education Diary: Ames Laboratory: green rare-earth recycling goes commercial in the US

India Education Diary ran the Ames Laboratory story about commercialization for a rare earth recycling technology developed by CMI

Green rare-earth recycling goes commercial in the US

An innovative method of recycling rare earth elements from electronic waste has gone commercial

CWRU: Rohan Akolkar elected senior member of National Academy of Inventors

CMI Team member Case Western Reserve University story "Rohan Akolkar elected senior member of National Academy of Inventors" features CMI project lead

CWRU: Scientists developing climate-friendly method to process ‘rare earth’ minerals; could make U.S. less reliant on foreign metals

Case Western Reserve University story "Scientists developing climate-friendly method to process ‘rare earth’ minerals; could make U.S. less reliant on foreign metals" features CMI project lead Rohan Akolkar