Sure, you know that inside smartphones gone, right? In fact, a lot of electronic devices have a certain amount of metal and are used in many components within these devices
But have you ever imagined how much gold you can extract in all the appliances that are disposed of in the landfill? There is a lot of gold that most people do not realize
Of course, the value of gold is usually high, and sometimes reach very important figures exceed 50 to 60 dollars per gram, and you can imagine how much money is disposed of in these old devices dumped in the landfill or burned. Therefore, today we have some information Which enables you to know how much gold you can extract from mobile phones, and how many of these devices need to be dismantled to extract 1 kg of gold?
According to a study conducted by the European Union, it is now possible to extract about 1 gram of gold recycling 41 smartphones. Another study conducted by Omecor shows that only 35 phones are needed to extract 1 gram of precious metal.
Of course, for the margin of error between the two studies we will use and adopt the average value of the two studies, which means I will need 38 phones to extract the above value on the assumption that there are no losses during the process of dismantling and recycling. Thus we can make a quick calculation to reach a quantity of gold within a single device. A 1 gram divided by 38 which equals 0.026 grams (ie 26 milligrams of gold per phone).
To know how many smartphones you need to extract 1 kg of gold, with a simple calculation, you'll need about 38461 devices. We're talking about more than 38,000 mobile phones to get 1 kg of gold.
Of course, it is difficult to dismantle more than 38 thousand phones, which is hard work, but for companies specializing in recycling of electronic waste, this process can be very profitable for them, especially as we know that these companies not only extract gold but here other metals are recycled like nickel and silver Copper, arsenic and lead (and others).
Other things no less important than its predecessor are silicon, there is strong investment in recycled silicon for the manufacture of solar panels, for example. As metals are used in technology and become scarce day by day, it means that their price will rise little by little.
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