This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
In the summer of 2023, Vasileios Tsianos, the vice president of corporate development at Neo Performance Materials, started getting calls from government officials on both sides of the Atlantic. Within the world of industrial material manufacturing, Neo is best known for making rare earth magnets, used in everything from home appliances to electric vehicles. But these calls weren’t about rare earths. They were about something considerably rarer: the metal gallium.
Neo recycles a few dozen tons of high-purity gallium a year, mostly from semiconductor chip
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