Mining e-waste for gold using bacteria

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Title

Mining e-waste for gold using bacteria

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Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand YouTube

Description

There aren't too many options for recycling your old computers, laptops, phones and tablets here in NZ - most of it gets dumped in landfill or sent overseas, so a company in Auckland has developed a way to mine precious metals like gold, siler and palladium using bacteria! Will Barker is the CEO of Mint Innovation based in Auckland and Dr Ollie Crush is the chief scientist.

Format

Video

Date created

19 October 2017

URL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycd2xif6MBw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Related subjects

RNZ / Radio NZ / Radio New Zealand / ewaste / science / microbes / recycling

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