Friction Stir Extrusion (FSE) is a novel process designed to directly recycle machining chips.
Foam is traditionally very hard to recycle because it is wet and oily, and often contains metal screws and other items that can damage recycling machines.
Dell, which was once criticised for using prison labour to recycle its machines, now takes back its old computers for no charge.
The work is different in that the protective material, usually in the form of costly powder, is in this case virtually cost-free and simply recycled from machining waste without any costly atomisation or similar process.
Recycle your old machine.
The machine recycles waste paper into new paper using a dry process (a small amount of water is used to maintain humidity inside the system).
Apple's price for taking back one of its computers in America is $30.Now eBay, the world's leading online auction business, has come up with an innovative way to encourage people to sell, donate or recycle their old machines over the internet.
On several models AO and Currys are charging the same price, but there are differences for installing or recycling a freestanding machine: Currys will take away and recycle your old machine for free whilst AO charges £9.99.
For example, there's no economically feasible way to recycle 100% of laundry machine water in a closed loop system, he says.
The council says the machine can recycle 100,000 mattresses, equivalent to almost one mattress from every household in Rhondda Cynon Taf.
Recycle your old fax machine through your local computer store.
