Materials are recycled to make tv's and other devices.

Tv's and other electronic devices such as cellphones and car batteries require a special type of rare earth metal. They are plentiful but some are in short in supply. Scientist have found a way to recycle these earth metals. Scientist have tried to recycle them before but it is very difficult and can cost a lot of money because some metals are really soft and they get diluted into the waste water, which is where they recycle it from. Scienitsts knew that nano-Mg(OH)2 was used to take out dyes and metals from water before so they decided to try it with the rare earth metals as well. When they tried it they found out that it was able to capture 85% of the metal. If the continue to use this there would be many benefits economically, as well as in other was. I never knew that a compound would be able to capture metals from inside an object. That is very interesting.