[LINK] World University Rankings, 2011 (E-Waste)

[Philip Argy]

These guys in Melbourne are leading the world in eWaste recovery yields:
http://www.pgmrefiners.com/ 

Philip

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Subject: Re: [LINK] World University Rankings, 2011 (E-Waste)

stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
<snip>
> And also surprizingly for me .. 
> 
> * World's top 25 universities for chemical engineering .. 
> 
> "Australia demonstrated its strength in chemical engineering with five 
> universities in the top 50 worldwide, a tally bettered only by the US.
> 
<snip>

Chemical engineering is important in mining (eg extracting gold from "poor
grade tailings") as well as refining oil, aluminium & steel.

This kind of base should also position Australia well to turn E-waste into
electronic scrap to enable reuse of materials - if we could sort out (sorry
about the pun) the separation.

Collection and "the reverse supply chain", rather than processing of
e-scrap, seems to be the  obstacle to converting E-Waste.
<http://ramin.com.au/itgovernance/green-ICT-e-waste.shtml>

Marghanita
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Marghanita da Cruz
http://ramin.com.au
Tel: 0414-869202






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