Abstract: A process for recycling an electronic scrap material comprising a metal provided on a polymeric substrate, which method comprises: milling flaked electronic scrap material with a bead impact material in the presence of water to produce flakes of cleaned polymeric substrate; adding water to the milled material and separating the flakes of cleaned polymeric substrate from metal-containing material; dewatering and drying the flakes of cleaned polymeric substrate; and treating the metal-containing material to recover the metal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 7, 2002
Date of Patent:
September 21, 2004
Assignee:
METSS.org, LLC
Inventors:
John S Hall, Michael Scott McRae-Williams, Kenneth James Heater, Robert Mark Hodge