MeX, the way we should treat electronic waste

MeX is a project based on the extraction of valuable metals from electronic components, reducing emissions. With the progress of our research, we found the MeX solution, its goal was to extract in particular two elements: gold because it is the most valuable material, and copper, the main metal on the printed circuit boards (PCB). All the methods that are being used nowadays create a large amount of pollution in the air and also require a huge amount of energy. Our solution managed to decrease the amount of energy required and the most important part is the fact that every reagent we mixed together is completely reusable. Until now, we managed to reach our main goal, but during our various experiments, we discovered an interesting method for extracting aluminium from DVDs and silver from keyboards.