By Turning Our Waste Into Wealth, Argonne Researchers Are Recirculating Earth’s Precious Resources and Keeping Pollutants Out of the Environment

Credit: Image by Argonne National Laboratory.

Argonne scientist Jessica Macholz places a lithium-ion battery in a machine designed to shred batteries for recycling. The shreds are then separated by other processes to recover the valuable metals within the battery.

« By Turning Our Waste Into Wealth, Argonne Researchers Are Recirculating Earth’s Precious Resources and Keeping Pollutants Out of the Environment

Credit: Image by Argonne National Laboratory.

Argonne researchers Haozhe Zhang and Jianxin Wang experiment with catalysts that can efficiently convert carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals.

« By Turning Our Waste Into Wealth, Argonne Researchers Are Recirculating Earth’s Precious Resources and Keeping Pollutants Out of the Environment

Credit: Image by Argonne National Laboratory.

Called an eddy current separator, this machine separates metals from plastics using a magnet, which causes the metals to jump off the end of a conveyor belt.

« By Turning Our Waste Into Wealth, Argonne Researchers Are Recirculating Earth’s Precious Resources and Keeping Pollutants Out of the Environment

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