{"id":13970,"date":"2009-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.comnews\/rare-metals-adsorbed-with-fruit-rinds-2\/"},"modified":"2009-01-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T00:00:00","slug":"rare-metals-adsorbed-with-fruit-rinds-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/rare-metals-adsorbed-with-fruit-rinds-2\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Rare Metals Adsorbed with Fruit Rinds <!--:--><!--:ja-->Sorry, but we are not able to display what you have requested.<!--:--><!--:ko-->Sorry, but we are not able to display what you have requested.<!--:--><!--:zh-->Sorry, but we are not able to display what you have requested.<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A team of researchers at Saga University announced they have developed an adsorption agent made with materials from fruit rinds and old paper capable of the selective recovery of platinum, palladium, and other rare metals used in the manufacture of PCs and cell phones. The process costs less than half that of conventional recovery methods and does not produce toxic substances. There are so many disposed consumer electronic devices in Japan that cities are referred to as \u201curban mines\u201d, which means the new technique has the potential to be useful and profitable.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><!--:ja--><!--:--><!--:ko--><!--:--><!--:zh--><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at Saga University announced they have developed an adsorption agent made with materials from fruit rinds and old paper capable of the selective recovery of platinum, palladium, and other rare metals used in the manufacture of PCs and cell phones. The process costs less than half that of conventional recovery methods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-13970","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}