{"id":253214,"date":"2026-01-23T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/253214\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:17:08","slug":"birmingham-scientists-magnet-recycling-idea-goes-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/253214\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham scientists&#8217; magnet recycling idea goes commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Found in everything from wind turbines and electric cars to MRI machines and mobile phones, rare earth magnets are an essential part of the technology we depend on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That, plus their value, means there is lots of interest in recycling them when the machine they are part of reaches the end of its life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The problem is when you crush, shred or shatter a super strong magnet, it just sticks to the metal of the recycling plant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For more than a decade we have been reporting on a radical idea from the University of Birmingham that makes recycling rare earth magnets a real possibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now that idea has left the laboratory and been developed into a commercial plant at Tyseley, on the outskirts of the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Found in everything from wind turbines and electric cars to MRI machines and mobile phones, rare earth magnets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-253214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}