After 1,000 years of making coins, Britain’s Royal Mint has a new focus: turning electronic waste into jewelry.

Researchers have developed a safe method to extract gold from e-waste and convert carbon dioxide into useful materials.

An curved arrow pointing right. One ton of circuit boards from old e-waste can contain 100 times more gold than a ton of ore mined from the ground. Now, scrappers like Wade Crawley in Sydney ...