Leading e-waste recycler and metal extraction company, Attero, India, has developed a low-cost metal extraction technology for e-waste. With an integrated recycling and refurbishing facility and proprietary metallurgical processes (patent pending), company officials informed that their unique metal extraction technology for e-waste extracts pure precious and semi-precious metals as a substitute for metals from virgin mines.
Attero’s disruptive recycling technology ensures that e-waste is processed in an environmentally friendly manner, with high efficiency and lowered carbon footprint, at a fraction of the costs involved with setting multi-billion dollar smelting facilities. This solves a lot of issues like e-waste moving to just a handful of smelters. Its technology is disruptive because going forward most of the demand for metals could be met by recycling and extracting pure metals from e-waste.
According to a joint study by Assocham-KPMG, India has emerged as the second largest mobile market with 1.03 billion subscribers, but also the fifth largest producer of e-waste in the world, discarding roughly 18.5 lakh metric tonne of electronic waste each year, with telecom equipment alone accounting for 12% of the e-waste.
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Eco-friendly metal extraction technology
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