Platinum, a metal that helps craft aesthetically pleasing jewelry, also finds use in a car's exhaust for entirely non-aesthetic reasons. The catalytic converter is required on nearly every car to ...

Platinum has been considered a precious metal for a couple thousand years now, with folks in both hemispheres using it to show off their conspicuous consumption since about 700 BCE. This is partly ...

Canada-based company opens facility in Tennessee to recover platinum group metals from diesel catalytic converters. Canada-based Regenx has allied with Tennessee-based Davis Recycling to process ...

The pollution control devices contain valuable metals, making them a hot commodity for recycling. Some beneficiaries of the thefts look the other way. The innards of a catalytic converter are coated ...

Per the companies’ term sheet, there will be a two-phased implementation of a recycling joint venture to recover platinum, palladium and rhodium from spent catalytic converters. Image courtesy of ...