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WVU Researchers Consider Recycling E-Waste into National Defense Tools
West Virginia Universities Engineering program has gathered talented researchers to inspect the potential of using e-waste to create products for national defense. Using recycled material in this way would relieve some of the U.S.'s reliance on outside countries for these materials.
October 4, 2022
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Researchers at West Virginia University are investigating new uses for discarded electronics. Receiving more than $250,000 from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the U.S. Department of Defense, the program is looking into using the recovered material from these electronics for products used for national defense.
Directors of the program explain how different this recycling process would be compared to traditional e-waste recycling. They are adamant about the importance of programs like this for self-reliance on important materials.
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