Construction has begun on a $220 million, state-of-the-art recycling facility in Lost Hills that will extract a variety of plastics and metals from 2,000 tons per day of waste material from a nearby ...

Across the U.S., the industrial landscape is undergoing significant changes. Battery gigafactories, EV assembly plants, solar module factories, and advanced materials hubs are under construction from ...

To build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to need a lot more metals. Mining those metals from ...

Aerogel's are extremely light and porous materials with wide-ranging potential, and mechanical engineers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) are getting pretty good at making them out of all ...

New research shows that magnesium and other metals in mine waste can be solubilized and recovered thanks to acid-producing bacteria. Researcher Nathan van Wyk believes that the method has great ...

Levitated Metals, a new company founded by President Ronak Shah, held a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday, Jan. 15, to mark the start of construction of its heavy media flotation plant in New Caney, ...

Refining precious metals is not as simple as polishing rocks that have been dug out of the ground. Often, complex chemical processes are needed to process the materials properly or in high quantities, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeffrey Steele has been a freelance writer for one-third of a century. A custom, steel-fabricated FEMA Flood Zone and ...

Construction waste comes in many forms. From scrap materials such as wood, brick, metal and asphalt during construction to broken glass, concrete and rocks during demolition. Some of these materials ...

Mobarakeh Steel’s “Green Concrete Production Using Waste” Project won the first place in Research at the American Concrete ...

Toxic contaminants from metal mining have infiltrated hundreds of thousands of kilometers of river channels around the world, exposing about 23 million people to potentially unsafe levels of lead, ...

Scientists have figured out a way to use the leftovers from brewing beer to remove heavy metals from electrical recycling waste. The metal waste that comes from the recycling of electrical products is ...