bhubaneswar scientists are planning to set up a plant at institute of minerals and materials technology immt here to recycle ewaste and extract not only gold but several other valuable metals like silver copper iron aluminium nickel and palladium we have developed a thermal plasma process to treat the ewaste to recover the metal values from it the most challenging part of recycling ewaste is to treat toxic gases to come out from it besides we have to separate plastic from it first which is carcinogenic in nature said p s mukherjee chief scientist advanced materials technology department immt who is also the incharge of the ewaste project the plant is an indoaustralian joint venture in which iitdelhi and iitroorkee have also collaborated mukherjee added quantity of ewaste has been increasing by the day including old electronic appliances like tv audiovideo devises refrigerators washing machines discarded computers cellphones printers fax machines cds floppies and so on but only 10 of all this get recycled besides developed countries also dump their ewaste in developing countries like india this could be the first ewaste recycle plant in the country a mass of ewaste contains 5060 copper 100 to 600 parts per mass gold and other valuable metals mukherjee said adding that a chennaibased company had approached them for developing a solution for ewaste problem