Re:Minerals and metals scarcity in manufacturing: A ‘ticking...
by DanBC on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @09:54AM
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I'm interested in how hard it is to recycle these things from scrap electronics.
There are many developing nations where a clean safe recycling factory would be very much better than scavenging scrap from a dump.
It seems to solve a few problems - giving people work and money; diverting dangerous materials form landfill recycling; etc.
It's weird seeing tantalum on the list, and knowing how many tantalum capacitors are thrown away each year. Or lithium, and knowing how many mobile phones I have stored away. (At least mobile phones now have some value and get sold onto recyclers.)
There are many developing nations where a clean safe recycling factory would be very much better than scavenging scrap from a dump.
It seems to solve a few problems - giving people work and money; diverting dangerous materials form landfill recycling; etc.
It's weird seeing tantalum on the list, and knowing how many tantalum capacitors are thrown away each year. Or lithium, and knowing how many mobile phones I have stored away. (At least mobile phones now have some value and get sold onto recyclers.)