NANOTECHNOLOGY POSES GREAT CHALLENGES FOR RECYCLING SECTOR

BY MARK ROWE MATERIALS recycling is becoming increasingly sophisticated as requirements and demand grow to salvage all kinds of materials from products made from all kinds of metals, plastics and paper. But the difficulties involved in extracting valuable materials could soon become a lot more complicated: the emerging technology of nanotechnology and its use of the tiniest particles could prove problematic for the recycling industry for a number of reasons. While there are already a number of nano products on the market - such as sunscreens with nanotitanium ...


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