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Eco-Friendly Sponges Made of Dairy Byproduct Can Extract Gold from Old Computer Parts
“The fact I love the most is that we’re using a food industry byproduct to obtain gold from electronic waste,” Mezzenga says. In a very real sense, he observes, the method transforms two waste products into gold. “You can’t get much more sustainable than that!”
@nursefrombirth There's something about the concept of using food to extract gold from garbage that makes me think we've achieved peak capitalism.