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Scientists Turn Used LCDs Into Medicine

Posted by timothy on from the waste-not-want-not dept.

schliz writes "Scientists from the University of York have come up with a new recycling technique that extracts PVA from used LCD panels to create a 'a bioactive sponge.' The technique could allow recovered PVA to be used in pills, wound dressings and tissue scaffolds that aid human tissue regeneration. It could also keep waste LCD screens from incineration or landfill altogether."

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  1. No need to RTFA. by wangahrah · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'll tell you right now. They turn them with SCIENCE!!!

  2. Excuse me? by hurfy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ""What we're doing is diverting a resource from landfill or incineration and treating it with green technology.""

    Umm, they extract a chemical by using an ethanol bath and microwaves or something like that. The rest of the monitor just magically disappears?!? Wasn't there an issue with the mercury and stuff in some of them, i don't see how this cures that issue either. I don't think the big issue was the 'glue' they are extracting is it?