A Japan-Italy research team say they have developed a simple and convenient method for recovering copper wires from PVC cables that involves the use of microwave radiation and avoids the generation or use of toxic chemicals.
Well, you’re assuming this is all flat, unbent wiring. When this stuff is scrapped, it’s just a folded mess or ball. They want to just take a big junkyard mess of wiring and melt all the plastic off without any toxic byproducts, then recover the copper.
Well, you’re assuming this is all flat, unbent wiring. When this stuff is scrapped, it’s just a folded mess or ball. They want to just take a big junkyard mess of wiring and melt all the plastic off without any toxic byproducts, then recover the copper.
They want but they can’t (yet)