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Re:E-waste mining could be big business and good for the planet by tortarga on Friday July 06, 2018 @11:33PM (#17476816)
Does "Obsolete" only apply to consumer grade applications though? Can there be a market for refurbishing old phones, laptops etc for IoT controllers that don't need massive processing power?
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Re:E-waste mining could be big business and good for the planet by nintendo1889 on Saturday July 07, 2018 @05:21AM (#17477786)
hmmm, I worked at google when they were doing a drive upgrade. They couldn't erase 100,000 hard drives (it would take years of time in the eraser machines) so they had to destroy them, which I assume meant melting them and eventually extracting the gold.
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