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This is precious metals and gemstones.
It's mostly many types of plastics and many types of metals.
And the metals, we typically get from ore that we mine in ever widening mines and ever deepening mines around the world.
Most of what's extracted from our end-of-life stuff, if it makes it to a recycler, are the metals.
Well it's predominantly because metals are very easy to recycle from other materials and from one another.
So it's very easy for either humans or machines to separate these metals from one another and from other materials.
Or they burn the plastics to get to the metals in burn houses like you see here.
And they extract the metals by hand.
We take out the things that aren't plastics, such as the metals they missed, carpeting, foam, rubber, wood, glass, paper, you name it.
The Center for Disease Control in the U.S. says we have 219 toxic pollutants in our bodies, and this includes preservatives, pesticides and heavy metals like lead and mercury.
Because when we think about reusing and recycling, metals, glass, things like that, can be recycled as many times as you like.
So now, how to choose the metals?
I recall the very moment one day when I was searching for a pair of metals that would meet the constraints of earth abundance, different, opposite density and high mutual reactivity.
And this attracts metals from their local environment.
And these metals accumulate as minerals on the surface of the bacteria.
So what we're doing at the moment is we're accumulating metals like calcium, potassium and magnesium from out of desalination brine.
What it is, it's a lamination of two different metals together.
What if we were to separate out metals from waste streams, small amounts of metals in water?
That's what microbes do; they chelate metals out of water.
Areas of heavy truck traffic, exposure to benzene and atomized metals, risk cancer and lupus.
I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside very small channels.
These can be divided into different groups, two of the most critical being rare earth elements and precious metals.
In fact, of the 17 types of rare earth metals, phones and other electronics may contain up to 16.
Another group of ingredients in smartphones comes with similar environmental risks: these are metals such as copper, silver, palladium, aluminum, platinum, tungsten, tin, lead, and gold.
This rusty lump of nickel and iron may not appear special, but when it is cut open ... you can see that it is different from earthly metals.
Plastic and metals represent 25 percent of global manufacturing production.
Interestingly enough, they also do this with uranium and chromium, and various other toxic metals.
This pattern is the defining feature of a crystal, and isn’t restricted to minerals— sand, ice, sugar, chocolate, ceramics, metals, DNA, and even some liquids have crystalline structures.
Used to be able to prevent this fouling by coating ships and submarines with toxic agents, like heavy metals, but these heavy metals aren't as effective at keeping ships clean as they used to be.
So several years ago, the US Office of Naval Research called on one of my colleagues, engineer scientist Dr. Anthony Brennan, to devise a solution to prevent fouling without the use of these heavy metals.
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