Novel physical separation for recycling
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Technology Description
While the separation of ferrous metals from non-ferrous metals is relatively easy thanks to the magnetic properties of the ones containing iron, recovering precious and valuable metals takes more technologically advanced and sophisticated recycling equipment. New physical separation techniques can better sort materials, such as through shredding with more selective component breaking and mechanisms to reduce entangling.
Relevance for Net Zero
Modern recycling technologies can effectively identify many different kinds of metals, though there is still the need for even more effective recycling technologies to separate non-ferrous metals and different alloys of the same metal. This could enable increased uptake of secondary production, thus reducing emissions from primary production.
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