Global Initiative Mines Retired Hard Disk Drives for Materials and Magnets

The proof-of-concept experiment is one of five projects under a global initiative to examine the feasibility of recovering and reusing material from retired hard disk drives (HDDs). In two of the five projects under iNEMI’s initiative, Momentum Technologies and Urban Mining Company are finding ways to scavenge magnet material from shredded drives. With Google’s six drives, the entire magnet assemblies were removed manually in a clean room by the Dutch electronics firm Teleplan, says Handwerker.

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