Flash heating offers faster recovery of antimony from e-waste

Researchers propose a flash-heating method to quickly recover antimony from flame-retardant plastics in electronic waste. Such plastics consume 39% of the world's antimony, most of which ends up in the tens of millions of tons of e-waste generated each year.

• 39% of global antimony is used in flame-retardant plastics
• Flash heating speeds up metal recovery from e-waste
• Tens of millions of tons of e-waste are generated annually