{"id":385716,"date":"2026-01-23T08:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385716\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:13:09","slug":"birmingham-scientists-magnet-recycling-idea-goes-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385716\/","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":385717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-385716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}