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DEScycle has opened its first demonstration plant at the Wilton Centre in Teesside, U.K.—the company’s first operational deployment of its distributed metals-processing platform—to recover critical materials from e-waste. The facility aims to strengthen the U.K.’s domestic critical-minerals supply chain and aligns with the government’s strategy that targets recycling to meet 20% of demand.

What impact could distributed e-waste recovery have on the U.K.’s critical-minerals security, and what barriers (technology, permitting, collection, economics) need to be addressed to scale it?

DEScycle opens demonstration plant for critical-materials recovery from e-waste in U.K.

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DEScycle (London, U.K.; www.descycle.com) opened its first demonstration plant at Wilton Centre in Teesside, U.K., marking the first operational deployment of its distributed metals processing infrastructure platform and a significant step towards strengthening the U.K.’s domestic critical minerals supply chain.  The U.K. Government’s Critical Minerals Strategy sets an ambition for recycling to meet 20% of […]

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dee 1 month ago
Deep eutectic solvent leaching looks great until humidity spikes and the water pickup and chlorides start eating 316 and wrecking kinetics. What are you specifying for wetted materials (Hastelloy or duplex), and what interlocks or inline sensors (water activity, redox, density) are you using to auto-divert off-spec solvent and keep PCB fines from blinding filters after 100+ hours - just interlock it.

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