Precious Metals and Mineral Recovery
Our process
Our recycling process is revolutionary, as we make tomorrow’s atoms from today’s end-of-life bits. We’re the only service provider that combines circularity, efficiency, and environmental consciousness.
Camston Wrather presents the future of electronics recycling and resource recovery.
Through advanced particle separation techniques, our recovery process sets news standards for sustainability.
No pressure, heat or chemicals are employed in the generation of recycled metals, ensuring the least harm to the environment.
Partnering with manufacturers, we bolster their supply chain stability through domestic sourcing, maximizing the reuse of recycled metals. Join us in shaping a more sustainable future.
Phase 1
This is phase of the process is named by Camston Wrather and our wholly owned subsidiaries with R2 Certified ITAD Data Destruction and ITAR registered facilities.
IT Assets
Electronic waste (e-waste) is gathered from diverse sources, encompassing businesses, organizations, government entities, and electronic recycling centers.
Customer Intake Phase
The intake process for materials involves collecting and categorizing electronic waste, securely erasing data, and assessing each item’s condition and potential for reuse, refurbishment, or recycling. This preliminary sorting and evaluation are crucial for maximizing recovery value and ensuring responsible disposal of non-reusable components.
End of Life Processing
Whole Unit Devices are disassembled to separate different components, such as printed circuit boards, batteries, plastics, metals and glass. PCBs are then sorted for further processing to liberate precious metals and minerals.
Sorting and Shredding
Full Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) are fed into primary shredders and then to secondary shredders, producing 5/8” pieces of e-scrap. Steel hardware and scrap aluminum are separated and sold to third-parties.
Mechanical Reduction
Pulverizes smaller feed into smaller particles, which are meaningfully smaller than 2mm. Our facility is capable of processing PCB shreds at an output rate of 4,000+ lbs per hour. This enables dry separation of key metals from polymer plastic fractions.
Particle Separation
The separation step further reduces the average metal particle size to a fine powder, which is then separated into a metals stream and a polymer stream. A magnetic separation process sorts the metal stream, allowing separation of the ferrous and nonferrous components.
Assay
The assaying process involves sampling precious metals to determine their purity and composition through our in-house lab to create faster turnaround times. Various techniques, such or inductively coupled plasma analysis, are used for precise analysis.
Customer Settlement
Post e-scrap recycling, customers receive settlement based on the assayed value of recovered metals. Additionally, the sustainable recycling process may yield carbon credits offering further financial incentives through the trade or sale of these credits.
Precious Materials and Polymers for Reuse
After the precious materials and polymers are recovered from recycling processes, they are then reintroduced into the marketplace as raw materials for new products. Which then contributes to a circular economy and reducing environment impact through sustainable material management and usage.
Sales
Our advanced particle separation techniques for extracting precious metals and our efforts to protect the longevity if all humanity don’t just set us a world apart from the rest of the recycling industry - they help us save the world itself.
Metal Fractions (non-ferrous)
A non-ferrous concentrate containing Au (gold), Ag (silver), Cu (copper) and PD (palladium) precious metals.
Metal Fractions (ferrous)
Ferrous Metal Fractions are extracted from forms of iron and steel, such as steel cans, appliances and scrap metal.
Polymer Fractions
Components or segments of a polymer molecule extracted from printed circuit boards.