YSK: bacteria can eat your old phone to recoup valuable materials
why YSK: rare earth metals are, euhm, rare. Extracting them from the earth has a huge ecological and often humanitarian impact. So for a green future recycling is key. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich have now discovered the potential of cyanobacteria strains in recycling Rare Earth metals from aqueous solutions.
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