Mining old hard drives for rare earth elements could facilitate 'large-scale, domestic recycling,' and ease US reliance on ...

Western Digital claims it’s saved 47,000 pounds of hard drives from becoming e-waste, creating a system that could help both ...

Although solid-state drives have become the standard for personal computers, mechanical hard drives remain the backbone of ...

The project employs an acid-free, environmentally friendly recycling process that reduces greenhouse ... which are essential for HDD magnetic systems, but also extracts valuable metals including ...

Currently, if you recycle an old hard disk drive, it's shredded into tiny ... many recovery processes involve a highly corrosive process that is not eco-friendly nor economical—and the rare ...