Your old computer could be a better source of metals than a mine
A ray of hope in our losing battle against electronic waste.
by Mary Beth Griggs
Apr 04, 2018
2 minutes
From your water-logged phone to your smashed smart TV, those personal electronics headed for the landfill are a potential goldmine. Or copper mine. Or—some day—a lithium mine.
Economists already knew that along with the of electronic waste tossed each year we were throwing out . But quantifying all the gold, copper, iron, plastic,
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