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WVU researchers recycle e-waste for national defense

Researchers at the West Virginia University are resurrecting discarded electronics, recycling electronic waste and recovering minerals from it to make new products critical for national defense.

The project led by Terence Musho, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, received more than $250,000 from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the U.S. Department of Defense.

Being dependent on countries like China to provide raw materials the White House realised a “critical shortage in the semiconductor supply chain,” said Musho. So the search for effective recycling methods and technology has become a priority.

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