Royal Mint opens factory in south Wales to recover gold from e-waste - eviltoast
‘Pioneering’ facility will extract precious metal from up to 4,000 tonnes of scrap circuit boards a year
  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Aren’t they buying our waste to extract the precious metals? So now we basically sell the waste to them pre-extracted

    • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Mint is only interested in one metal.

      Others exist in e waste. Somi assume it would just be reduced price.

      Of course I am in no way agreeing the exporting of dangerous heavy metal waste etc is a good thing. Just not likely completely unwanted.