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Eliad Silcoff

Chief Scientific Officer at OCALAB; PhD chemist with 25+ years in the chemical industry specializing in catalysis, materials science, and nanotechnology.

Jun 19, 2026

12:39
But what's the recyclability of that?
12:44
Gilad, I'm happy to answer.
12:49
So as you said, one wonderful thing about PGMs and particularly platinum and palladium is that they tend to be very, very stable.
12:55
So in all applications, with the exception of automotive applications, they're very easy to recycle.
13:01
And I actually remember doing reactions with palladium during my second year of my undergraduate degree, where after we finished the reaction, we actually took all the leftover catalyst, put in a special little vial, and that vial was sent off to one of the many companies that recycles it, whether it be Hiraeus or BASF or whatever.
13:19
And it's quite easy to recycle and you can get it back at very, very, very high yields.
13:27
The reason I separated the PGMs using automotive are just because in some cases, the PGMs can be damaged or poisoned by the presence of sulfur in some types of gasoline.

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35:53
Okay, you want to tell us about that, Eddie-Ann? What are your ideas?

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