By the action of microorganisms, recovering rare metals efficiently.

In the industrial park of the town Higashino Onodera Onodera, Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, Morishita Jintan Co., Ltd. is known and the manufacture of a medicament "Jintan", such as sales, efficient recovery of rare metals were melted in the plant effluent to build a manufacturing plant for the industrial development of the new capsule can.
Referred to by the action of microorganisms in the capsule, and rare metals can be recovered and reused efficiently, part of the aim of running from March.
Rare metals, but a valuable resource that is used to OA equipment such as mobile phones and personal computers, the dregs out of the equipment in the manufacturing process would mix the wastewater plant, had been difficult to recover.
(0.5 to 8 mm in diameter), and introduced into the wastewater, kept inside microorganisms adsorbed on the rare metal that had penetrated into the capsule, and burn each capsule, capsule industrial company was co-developed with Osakafuritsudai rare I only can be retrieved. It may be interesting and we do not know how it operates's what extent that can be recovered.


「仁丹」や医薬品の製造、販売などで知られる森下仁丹は、滋賀県長浜市小野寺町の東野・小野寺工業団地内に、工場排水の中に溶け出したレアメタル（希少金属）を効率的に回収できる新開発の産業用カプセルの製造工場を建設する。
　カプセル内の微生物の働きで、効率よくレアメタルを回収して再利用できるといい、３月からの一部稼働を目指す。
　レアメタルは、携帯電話やパソコンなどのＯＡ機器に使われる貴重な資源だが、機器の製造過程で出る残りかすは工場排水などに混じってしまい、回収が困難とされていた。
　同社が大阪府立大と共同開発した産業用カプセル（直径０・５～８ミリ）は、排水に投入すると、カプセル内に浸透したレアメタルに微生物が吸着して内部にとどめ、カプセルごと燃やすと、レアメタルだけが取り出せる。どの程度回収できるものなのか分かりませんが事業展開していくとおもしろいのかもしれませんね。