Every year over 5 million tons of e-waste is created worldwide from obsolete computers, phones, etc. 70 percent ends up in Giui, China where factories pull it apart for precious metals. For every million cell phones they recycle 35,000 lbs of copper, 772 lbs of silver, 75 lbs of gold, and 33 lbs of palladium. Just for the phones this is valued at more than ten million dollars. Once stripped, the plastic and PC boards are ground up and plowed into the soil or burned.
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