E-waste mining could be big business and good for the planet

Re:E-waste mining could be big business and good for the planet by kwiens on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:19PM (#17476306)

Nope, the items with negative value cause significant problems. CRT displays are the largest design problem that recyclers are working their way through.

Just this week, ECS Refining, Apple's main recycler in California, shut down. All of their unprocessed material is now the responsibility of their landlord. https://resource-recycling.com/e-scrap/2018/07/03/ecs-refini...

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Re:E-waste mining could be big business and good for the planet by MisterOctober on Friday July 06, 2018 @11:49PM (#17476868)

^ fact. I work for a refurbishing company, and while some of the scrap generated gets a decent payout from the recycling folks [the best common category being old PII and PIII boards / older finger boards AKA controller cards], the negative value stuff like CRTs, fluorescent lamps, and Ni-Cad batteries is awful to deal with. The big CRT operation in my state shut down a while ago, so now they have to be sent out of state i.e., cost more now to offload.

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Re:E-waste mining could be big business and good for the planet by walrus01 on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:26PM (#17476326)

I remember seeing this a few years ago:

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/10/gps-tracking-devices-cat...

http://www.ban.org/trash-transparency/

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