The electronic waste piled up in a workshop at Birmingham university does not look like an obvious answer to a pressing economic and strategic problem. It sits in white sacks, each holding a tonne of material made up of shiny metal triangles cut from the corners of old hard-disk drives.
However, HyProMag, a company founded by staff at the university’s School of Metallurgy and Materials, believes the “waste” could be a valuable and lucrative source of so-called rare earth minerals crucial for the new, low-carbon energy forms that future economies are likely to demand.
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