How 6 Million Pounds Of Electronic Waste Gets Recycled A Month | Big Business
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- Only 17% of electronic waste is recycled. That’s because devices aren’t designed to be recycled. They’re full of tiny, toxic materials that are hard and expensive to break down. But if extracted safely, those materials could mean big money for e-recyclers like Sims Lifecycle Services. We visit Sims’ Tennessee recycling facility to find out why e-waste is getting harder to deal with.
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In the future we will be mining landfills because the metals concentration is higher than in ore.
Underrated comment
Yeah better way to save the earth
I quit my job recently because I make more money by smoking weed on my TH-cam channel 😂💨
@@SevenHunnid Wow, your job's pay must've sucked.
@@SevenHunnid all 15k views combined makes you that much money?
I’m so glad places like this exist, there’s a glimmer of hope.
Not with what Apple is doing with their chargers.
worked in a precious metal refinery and we had these machines to break down phone and tables etc.... these place are hazardous for workers but provide a invaluable service. we took in products from all electronics manufacturers including apple.
@@insectbite1714 well Apple is ran by Commies so no surprise there.
@@patrickgrady7505 yes the most profitable company in the world is communists lol
No there isn't.
This was cool to watch.
Hey Zack
indeed
yes
hi
Scratches at level 6 with deeper grooves at level 7
“I don’t know if I have access.. oh I do nehehehe” - the lady that literally runs the place
exactly, this might be a bad sign
relax it's not a big deal. This is coming from someone who regulates staff access in a big finance company
Usually if there are internal security measures like that access is usually limited to a select few people who NEEDS to have access. It is not based on how senior you are.
@@EatMyShortsAU thank you someone who actually knows what they're talking about
@@tianmu5507 Being the boss of a company doesn't neccessarily mean that you have access to everything.
Right to repair would be one way you can motivate manufacturers to include ways to keep devices in circulation longer than 2 year warranty duration
is also responsibility of the Designer > and the manufacturer.
Yeh that's coming for people and how laws and regulations are going to change, World Economic Forum mentioned this once or twice they'll force companies to have Repair Services cos right now they've totally got rid of Repair SErvices where there's nothing you can do if it breaks and they know this will help them make more money... nah... if it can be repaired or new parts put in then they should make the effort like they used to.
I think the way we can help keep devices in circulation is design them in a way that we can have it adapted to the latest Technology rather than throwing the whole thing away... Nokia are doing this with their old phones to be able to use the latest SIM Cards, Batteries and a few other parts and they're still able to make Texts and Calls no problem.
When we start paying for everything Digitally which we already are, they can't get rid of Debit Cards either we'll still be using those cos the Tech just isn't reliable enough yet to be so reliant on it for everything and What if it breaks or you lose it? so... What's the point of using a Mobile Phone for anything but Texts and Calls? and we have Tablets and Computers, Why not just get a Tablet if you need it for more important things? or a Gaming Laptop?.
At the end of the decade we'll be connected to the Internet Satellite Grid where we'll be able to connect to it anywhere too so we'll be able to choose 1 device to do everything on and honestly i'd totally go with a Tablet or Laptop i don't see Mobile Phones lasting to try and use it for everything so at least it's a shame to waste those, i think they should go back to a simple device just for Texts and Calls so nobody feels obligated to keep up with the latest software.
As for Laptops, PCs and Tablets they should stop changing the size of the parts so often and keep it to a standard size for a couple decades at least so we can repurpose it with the latest parts, they intentionally keep changing the size of the parts like every couple of years these days... no need for it at all.
The EU has a new law since this year which force companies to sell replacements and increase the update support as part of the customers rights. They also plan to force companies to use the USB-C with PD 3.0 as charging port, to reduce the need of cables with different connectors and make it easier to use fast charging with different devices on the same charger. Only the full right to repair is something, what the EU talks about but don't make because of the pressure of Big Tech. I mean, Apple plans a lawsuit against the EU and criticise the EU for the new ports requirement, even while the industry got 9 years to create an own industrial norm.
@@alicethegrinsecatz1611 Oh companies update more sure... but still doesn't mean they actually have to explain what they're really doing even mail companies i had to figure it out myself a few days ago to book a redelivery cos they're using up their redelivery on their end by just putting red cards through out door when they didn't try to actually deliver anything cos every 2 or 3 months they're putting restrictions in place to obviously curb carbon emissions and how much is delivered in 1 day but they won't say any of that, even saying that they're doing this to delay delivering things they won't say even when it's perfectly unstainable they have to do this. It's so annoying and pointless when i have to go to the trouble of figuring it out on my own when they could have just said.
So far we've still not had companies allowing us to repair anything the service doesn't exist still but in terms of "updates" nah still same hiding things and creating distrust.
Buy a Framework laptop, they are modular and repairable.
Planned obsolescence should be illegal. That is the only reason we have so much electronic waste.
Our world moved from FEUDAL dictatorship to Capiraist Corporate Dictatorship, your agenda (hope for future generations) can only happen if we, people (democracy) put pressure on government, but will that happen?
Not the only reason, consumerism in general has gotten soo extreme
Its really bad. Everything now a days has an end date... Cars, Electronics, appliances..... Example, Cars that the manufacture hasn't changed a thing about the car (some motor, same electronics, ect.) change things ever so slightly that the previous year part doesn't fit. Round the edges a little more, make a change that wasn't important at all just so they have to sell you the newer part.
@@heshwar6243 the pockets of corporations are way too deep unfortunately.
@@doctorthee you're right, but planned obsolescence has got to be on top of the list.
The company that sets up a factory to manufacture anything must also be required to set up another factory, at the same time, to recycle what it manufactures. It's ridiculous that companies are allowed to manufacture as much (soon-to-be) waste as they like and for others to have to keep up with them to try to undo their damage.
That's a damn good idea... 100% recycle requirement for any manufacturing company. Apple, Samsung, IBM, car manufacturing companies.
Itd be nice but nobodies going to have the money to start new businesses unless they are already rich. So big companies will have even more power and less competition insuring they will forever be large and powerful. Then the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, which happens anyways.
@@Aatell764 Most smaller companies assemble their products from parts they have sourced from other companies. Their actions, with regard to recycling their products, would be limited to disassembling the products to ship the parts back to their respective original manufacturers for further recycling. They always also have the option of out-sourcing such activities.
@@Aatell764 I hope you haven’t reproduced. You are the type of voter liberal politicians pander too. Scared, vaccinated, masked, woke, angry, offended, aggrieved. It’s probably too late for red pill.
@@oldstudbuck3583 Lol the fact that I'm the exact opposite, is what I find hilarious. Buddy you might just be talking about yourself. All I said was it would give more power to the already powerful companies that rule the world, but if you disagree with that then you are the most blue pilled ass kissing knee bowing ass mother lover around. Your okay with businesses running your life? And you are trying to act manly while kissing your overlords ass? Get the hell outta here buddy.
Thank you to the recyclers out there for being one of the few to care about our home and our fellow inhabitants. This made me feel so good to watch it, even though most e-waste isn't currently recycled and even though smartphone makers seem insistent upon 2-year planned obsolescence (by making phones whose batteries aren't easy to change and by not providing software updates longer). It's good to be reminded that I'm not the only person in the world that cares about this.
I can safely guarantee you bud that as much as I admire your view on things, these companies do not do this out of kindness, profit is their main and biggest focus by a long shot. They even mentioned it in this video on how much money is involved in this.
@@TheBloodyHarvest That's a very cynical view of the world. It's not true that people only do things for profit. Otherwise, people would never give away money expecting nothing in return. But people do just that all the time. There is profit involved in recycling because no one wants to spend their life's savings on it because they'll need that money later to live on. Can't fault someone for wanting pay for what they do. That's not a bad thing -- to be paid for your work. It's fair. One thing for another. You act like any time someone makes money it's bad. But it's good. To give nothing to someone in return for their services or goods is bad; it's basically stealing, unless the person chooses to give it away for free. But no one is expected to give away everything, or even anything. Altruism is optional.
@@Pulseczar1 You're talking as if this company is an individual. Companies exist for monetary purposes otherwise it'd be called a charity. or a non profit organization. To give you an example, no company ever gives money out for nothing, they do it for good publicity which also brings in more money than they gave.
I think you might need a reality check on how the business world works instead of believing in the good of these billion dollar companies.
@@TheBloodyHarvest Sometimes a company is composed of one person. Sometimes it's composed of a lot of people, but one person at the top that has the final say on everything. Sometimes companies are composed of several people at the top that have final say. It doesn't matter. You can be a company that makes a profit and still be doing good for the world. You act like those two things are mutually exclusive, like anytime money is exchanged, evil is going on. And to say that no one/company ever gives away money or other things or services for free without expecting things in return is just false. There is also nothing wrong with wanting a good public image. That is a healthy thing to care about how you are perceived, to some degree. Oftentimes, the good things people do come back to them. That is true. That is a good thing. Good should come back to those that do good. It also serves as a motivation for doing good things.
printers ewaste can be drastically decreased if monopoly on ink jet did not exist.
To be fair, nothing is stopping you or anyone else from buying refillable cartridges. People are lazy and manufacturers exploits that.
@@ef3675 actually, most printers reject non standard cartridges. Fun fact they also reject copying currency bills!
@@doctorthee Most printers also have a "shut up and print anyway" mode, however more often than not it's conveniently hidden. My Canon MX410 behave as such.
Buy ink tank printers. It's a one time investment, very helpful in the long run.
printers ewaste can be drastically decreased without the need of physical paper but using some eink epaper, something like is used in kindle but flexible and thin
And companies like apple say they care about the environment while all they care about is money.
Haha company caring about environment?
@@batman_2004 they only do it to make more money example is recycled plastic bottles recycled plastic cost about 3 cents more per kilo than new plastic per kilo but more people will buy it of they think it’s better for the environment
@@batman_2004 They exist not so much in technology (Fairphone, Europe. It's the worlds first modular smart phone) but in the beauty and cosmetic industry it's growing. Ethique cosmetics uses no plastic in its packaging or shipping and now makes concentrates where you add boiling water and you have shampoo, general cleaner, lotion and conditioner along side their already large line of solid products.
Corporations are the main polluters of this planet!
if they care, then switch the dang cables to fabric
Why not send electronics back to the manufacturer at the end of it's life. They made it so they know exactly how to disassemble it and re use it. Should be an end to e-waste.
Before they sell they need to demonstrate how to disassemble and recycling it and only after that they get to sell their stuff
Because they dont give a damn - they are actually more interested in making it harder to repair (take apart) the items that they are making - because that means they can sell more new items :/ Only way to do this is by legislation and forcing companies to accept the consumers right to repair.
Exctly this is where laws come in, politics can help us solve this issue
The point is that electronics are hard to disassemble... Anyone can disassemble them, it's just hard and time consuming.
@@Gigasimo456 For real. But separating trash and recycling it is also time consuming but it still needs to be done, Better change it at the source aka make laws for companies to design products that are repairable / recycleable
We need more companies like this to make the world better.
Imagine throw away your hard drive and buy a new one on ebay, then you found out that is your old hdd
Imagine thinking you are creative by starting a comment with imagine.
People who throw away good hard drives will just buy a whole new machine, not parts
@@joeybaseball7352 imagine having blm as ur pfp
@@joeybaseball7352 no one respect you, almost killing asian in your sight.
@@covidmakesmoney866 huh?
"NICE printers get eaten up and ground up." We all know how "Nice" printers can be.
Especially laser printers. They are the only I have personally used.
I have to fight with my printer 1/4 of the times I print anything with it.. It would give me great joy to see it shredded.
Very cool to understand this process. We take much for granted in our technologically driven society.
I recently started my e-waste transportation company CEWTS and watching this video made me very optimistic about my company's future. Thanks, Business Insider!
Nokia: *laughs in immortality*
Lol
😂😂😂
I have an old one in my glove box for emergencies. I check it every 6 months. Always has charge on it.
What makes them so enduring?
@@Love-jf7rs thats the secret….
but seriously, nokia just built them really, really well. They where first made to be durable (thats what i remember).
This kind of industries could be used on rust belt states on the US to generate some good manufacturate jobs.
this could work if there are people who would start and finance business like these in those areas
I hope there will be more recycling plants throughout America.
The problem is trucking it there. There is virtually nothing else to haul out of the armpit of America that any other state wants... Gotta have back hauls to make a profit.
@@johncholmes643 Food?
@@Parap0n3ra
Coming from the west, there is no food in the armpit that isn't in the west. Let alone the quality.
That is absolutely terrific! So glad to see this!
Amazing I hope other people will learn. It is amazing to hear that someone recycle electronic waste
These companies are really needed in all the countries... Especially in Asian and African countries where most of the e waste goes to land fill.
The US needs this just as bad if not more. You may have missed the graphic that showed 75% of e-waste in the USA also goes to landfills. As one of the largest producers/consumers of electronics we should also be one of the largest repurposers(not a word)
They are just do the shredding job, it’s the most easy part, there are a long way to go to recycle them. And the toxic job, of course goes to Asian and other poor countries. People there cost their healthy to make cents.
The problem with the countries is that they could not have a working system for categorizing waste.
Ignorant. All the E waste from the WEST are MOSTLY shipped to Asia or Africa for disposal/recycled. Your labour cost are too expensive to cover every aspect of recycling.
Asia isn't a junk yard, it earns more than the western world just visit it.
Sally is our big shredder, Ginger is our metal finder.
"Heidi is German"
WTF
I guarantee women didn't build the factory.... Only men can build such things. I would hate to work there with the pro women attitude.
They r trying to confuse people into thinking that women build these machine..dats pathetic..
My interpretation is that Heidi was built by a german company..
Their pro-women attitude is ridiculous, machines (especially weapons) have been given female names for decades, such that operators (men) treat them well.
@@MCRuCr that makes a sense "operators (men) treat them well."
Heidi was designed in Germany. I have been inside that facility about 5 times.
Hats off to all workers❤️🙏🏼
So good to know this company is in business!
If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, designed or removed from production 🙌
What you have posited is technically "reduction".
Let’s remove you from production, dosnt look like your helping at all
@Jayo Delaware individuals can't make nearly enough of an impact to solve the problem, we need to cut it off at the source.
@Jayo Delaware You will NEVER get a boycott big enough to make Apple stop hiring out slave labor, sorry, it's out of our hands.
And then we have apple that doesn't allow third party repair or Apple repair for that matter.
tesla as well. found a loophole in the right to repair act so they make it completely impossible for you to rebuild your car so the totaled or damaged ones are trash
@@mikejones8808 no, Tesla makes decisions because Elon Musk cares about the enviorment. Recently Tesla made a desision that reduced profits but also reduced pollution. This is why we should buy Tesla.
@@mikejones8808 repairing cars is dangerous. Tesla knows that people will hate on then if they get injured while trying to repair a Tesla
The right to repair and the right to recycle should be law.
@@insectbite1714 Lmao barely anyone gets injured while repairing cars, and only experienced people actually attempt to repair cars. "repairing cars is dangerous" is the weakest excuse I've seen from an Elon fanboy. 😂
Very nice operation. I operated shredders for many years, maintenance is a nightmare, especially if rogue material gets in there.
Thanks for the video, good luck
Thank You for this, this is an example of material actually getting the right process instead of being dumped in the earth.
this is such an awesome video and I sincerely hope this company can expand all over the USA and the rest of the world to help save our planet, our people and our money. The manufacturers need to work to help companies like these to operate more efficiently and more economically. The days of throwing things out are over.
Lies again? RP Education
"We can reuse and resell these parts."
*slaps an exposed ram module and ssd on the counter*
lol where
@@YurinovichDornburg
2:40 :p
he didn't "slap" them enough to break them. those are ok parts.
Eh, he could have been more gentle with them. Especially considering these parts are used and you're on camera. I've handled brand new parts more gentle than that and they've been damaged.
@@prerecordedresponse9884 maybe he doesn't like to be filmed and he is pissed :-)
well yes, sometimes things break even if you're gentle with them, shit happens, but if it happens to you once..then the next time it will happen is in about 3 years time,in those 3 years you've kept handling them gently and you have no idea why it happened again..what do you do from then on? you go rough on them! so why not do it all the time? :-)
Seeing old tech getting recycled and eventually made into new tech is satisfying to watch!
But not the old tech that isn't made anymore and is precious to collectors. ie stuff from the 70's-90's
Ii's all a big understatement. Thank you so much to the workers for their honorable work.
"Female dominant machines". Machinery is almost always referred to as her or she.
machines have been given female names for centuries, only now people frame it as a "pro-feminist" thing.
Hilarious
All machines will eventually give you problems, hence the reference to machines as being female.
Because they are noisy.
@@Norm475 And make us wonder if we made a solid choice, by getting her!
I thought mainly ships were given feminine names
When I was looking in to this about 12 years ago with work, I went over to somewhere in Essex and saw very similar processes, with huge shredders for the hard drives (and everything else, but hard drives are by far the hardest bit of the computer) apparently they had designed the wipe system for the hard drives working with GCHQ, had to do 7 sequential writes, and 7 random writes I think, then test for any data remnants, if it passed, could be sold, if failed went to shredder and so were allowed to wipe government department disks for official, and official - sensitive data, and resell them (think it was slightly different security classification system at the time). They also did revenue sharing with the clients.
Amazing,we need more of these places.
Thank you BUSINESS INSIDER for giving this valuable information, you and your team really working hard to get contents, and thank you for helping me for my startup and please I request you to make videos on recycling e-waste.
Thumbs up for the workers, and the genius who made this happen.
I had to congratulate and wish my best to the team that took so many effort to create a so good content. And with that quality.
Good video. Just the right balance of sights and explanation for this introduction.
Great report. I would love to get a tour of the facility. Recycling is a passion of mine.
She was named after the German engineer who built her. HE had a ginger beard. 😂
How wokeness can be based on stupidy..
A female can be named after a male. America is literally the feminization of Amerigo, the map maker who lied about going to America. You have masculinity issues.
Jonathan F Nobodys saying a female cant be named after a male you dolt, we’re just pointing out how erroneous it is for those women to perceive the machines names as “female dominant machinery” because of the machines name. Basically all machines were invented by a European man anyone with a brain knows that & those same men have been naming their creations with mostly feminine names because we like our ladies & we like our names. Of course not all names are feminine like “Ginger” yet they still joke of it being female dominant. Silly joke but just a joke nonetheless. Dont diagnose people with issues when you dont completely understand the topic.
The feminism in this video is definitely cringe
@@nookied3735 is that really what we got out of this video?
I was just thinking about this idea.. turns out it already came true.. amazing video from insider! Thank you! It helped me finding new ideas
Same bro
me too.
Fantastic that some of our "waste" are being recycled. We need more and more of this example.
I recently started working here and it's actually a lot of fun. A lot of security and a lot of good people
The cost for society and nature is as always not paid by the manufactorers!
Manufacturers make the specifications from the designs of the company contracting them.
We also have to go to the level of Research & Development, having scientists and engineers
come up with new designs for the gadgets.
Learn from God: go to the molecular level and make things biodegradable!
This is the future, and God will be happy about better environmental stewarding!
Since some leading companies are located overseas, I am pleased to know that Sims Lifecycle Services is located in the United States of America.
I really loved learning about Jim and Ingrid's insights. They know what's up.
You can re-use RAM memory, processors and everything else.... unless they are soldered to the motherboard like most of recent Apple products. So much for a "green" company.
You noticed that too right? I said the same thing about apple but my friend didn’t believe me. 🤦♂️ 🍎
You cannot use old electronics. The stuff is old. That's why it got tossed out. It is obsolete and has been replaced with better tech. That's why they're not still selling original AT PCs in stores today. Because nobody wants them!
@@1pcfred That has nothing to do with what i said. Earlier in the days, if you wanted to slightly tweak an apple product, you could replace the RAM or the HDD with an SSD. Everything is soldered onto the motherboard nowadays, so if you want to tweak anything, you're forced to either replace the whole computer or wait a few more years until you can afford another one.
@@1pcfred Then why does my computer contain old parts with a couple of new parts then?
@@FowlorTheRooster1990 because you like to throw good money after bad.
Great work, excited to see this in my home country. Excellent.
I am feeling so good after watching this vdo 🙏
I wish every country has a recycling unit especially developed ones who usually dump their waste to landfills 👍
An absolutely smashing [no pun intended] presentation.
Thank you.
There ought to be a law if someone sells electronics or any appliances for that matter. It’s up to them to take them back for recycling, collect a fee upfront and pay it back as a bounty for someone to return it and keep them out of landfills.
Damn these series are gold
Recycled
@@baljeetwilliams6884 its best if they get more of it in landfilleds since old computer parts or phone parts can be recycled to make new computers or phones and better way to save the enviroment
My job is to smoke weed on my TH-cam channel 😳
Nice to see the buisiness I started in is doing so great 👍 Engineering trash is way underestimated.
GLAD WE GOT OUR HANDS ON SOME OF THESE & ENJOYING WATCHING TH-cam ON IT
This is the most important word done by this people .Truely Fascinating .
Well, I hope manufacturers produce some kind of open format for products on how to disassemble them, this way lots of labor intensive work can be automated ...
Always someone trying to get rid of decent paying employment 😂😭☠️
Always tryna take away jobs
Just automate the dangerous-hazardous parts of the work then.
Win-Win! :)
@@pascalfrancisco8795 idc
Stop trying to steal our jobs!!!
Ingrid please setup a recycling factory in India, we really need it
There's no use in india cause the cost of recycling will by far exceed the resale value
true man
Already have in dharabi
@The plan In thirty years you guys from the West will be working as janitors in the East.
i think, theres a lot of rich people in india, able to build factories like this
This place is really a awesome. They are doing one of the best work for the planet.
Thank you very much for this. Must be very expensive to recycle.
"This area is super secure, you need key card access, I'm not sure if I can get in." Door opens with no effort. "Oh, I can....a....hahahahahahahhha"
Top level security for sure!
She clearly scanned her badge.
@@bunnyoppress You clearly missed the point entirely.
If you want to highlight their lack of security, why not point out that she didn't know she had clearance rather than the ease with which the door opened? Ijs
Interesting video!!! You should try to make videos on Investment...
I wanted to trade crypto but got confused by the fluctuation in price
@@benlionelscott5593 That won't bother you if you trade with a professional like Martin S. Schwatz
@@ameliadavis2869 I heard his strategies are really good
@@yonglee4810 Yeah
My first investment with Martin S. Schwatz earned me profits of $25,620 and ever then he has been delivering,
Great video, props to Sims for taking on a hard-work niche to get their profit. Hopefully the manufacturers put some more effort into recyclable design as it will save them on material sourcing if Sims can process old models and get it back to them for lower prices than the mining companies. Best way to support planned obsolescence is to make the cycle of replacement as closed loop as possible.
good video, but im left with so many questions. i'll ask the last one that came to mind: manufacture electronics without WHICH toxins? nearly all of it can be considered a toxin depending on how it's handled at end of life, even aluminum (which most ppl have no idea). I want to start my own ewaste recovery company one day - so far im a party of one in a small garage and do/did as a hobby. my favourite part is how Al is sep. from pcb's, from plastic, based on weight & ferrous composition combined, that's pretty smart.
Damn wr want these everywhere. Produces more jobs and money than sending to landfill too.
I’m curious to know how to get started in a business like this?
Lots and lots of money
@@noir2601 and luck
You could probably become a disassembler and work the line with forklift certification. For the reuse/refurbishment area, basic knowledge in electronics and computer hardware. To run the facility, a Master's in electronic engineering, project management experience and lots of startup capital to invest in the space, technology and training personnel.
Unfortunately companies use less and less amount of precious metals when manufacturing these days... So first do a proper research before even starting on a business like this.
I was thinking about the same thing 😊
Good work & idea. 👍 Should have more of these all over the world.
That's crazy but thank you for recycling all the electronics that is no longer usable I really appreciate you what you do please be safe.
It takes 2 minutes to take out RAMs from Mac
These guys: a time taking process
Apple messed with the laws making it illegial to recycle Apple products like that. Also Apple products are purposfuly super weak.
That process is so labor and machine intensive it's hard to believe it's profitable. Surely, it must be, or they wouldn't be doing it. I'd really like to see the balance sheet.
I am having my doubts that business is running without huge subsidies to keep it financially afloat. Maybe it's really a fentanyl lab in disguise? They're not breaking up electronics they're breaking bad!
@@1pcfred Look up the price of palladium and get back to me.
@@torchandhammer how much palladium do you think you're going to get out of e-waste?
@@1pcfred It's in all the little ceramic capacitors that are everywhere on circuit boards. There's also gold, silver, copper, nickel, lead, brass, stainless steel, steel. It's all well worth recovering.
@@torchandhammer well then you sit there with your torch and your hammer and you recover it then. You'll be on Easy St. in no time! Until you stop and think how they can afford to put those capacitors all over circuit boards. It's because when they're new they only cost a fraction of a cent to buy. So there can't be much in them that's particularly valuable. The people making the parts certainly are not operating at a loss. They're making money too. So if they're selling the part for a fraction of a cent imagine how cheap it is for them to make it. There's not much there in material costs. There can't be. With our present technology it is not worth recovering. Now if we had Star Trek replicators then we'd be getting somewhere. They could disassemble junk on the atomic level. But we can't do that. We basically just have torches and hammers today.
Hi from Mexico 😀 great vid on how electronics are recycled!!
Very good video and thank you!
I wish I could have one like this near me, some allow you to browse what they've got and pick some out for bargains, shame the rest of it mostly goes to landfill
Yeah I wish!
I used to be part of the StRUT (students to recycle used technology) and we used to process technology donated to the school to make computer labs and repair/reuse what we could. What we couldn't do we would take pieces of tech apart and put it on the pallets you see in the video that they are unloading. Back then it didn't seem like much of an issue when we only had CPU's that ran at 400mhz, and upgrading your computer was only really needed every 5 years or so...and lack of cell phones. Now though it has definitely became a major issue.
One thing to note your electronic recycle at your landfill will probably just incinerate it instead and cause more pollution. Not all landfills process e-waste.
Some recycling yards here in Australia, take e-waste and pay you for it.
As this video shows it's very intensive to recycle the waste.
If Sims were to look at cash for e-commerce waste yards then maybe just maybe less might go into land fill or worse (other countries - the contents is toxic is so many ways)..
FIFO in Australia is the abbreviation for "Fly In, Fly Out', referring to people to do the periodic flying in for a week or so of work at mines. This includes the work of boilermakers and other support staff for these enterprises.
As for the hard drives, do they check for bad sectors? If they don't, it shouldn't be resold.
Hope NA, asia, etc are improving their recyling and doing less Landfills. good video :)
Those are continents mate.
This is so cool. It's good business. It saves the environment. It helps technology develop faster without the fear of creating too much waste. And the coolest thing, most of the workforce are women!
Great job !!! So nice to have such production. Lets together make our planet clean again !!!
I love the way you doing its saving our beautiful Earth
this is why I dont throw away my old stuffs, I sold it to someone else for being re-use or they got recycled like in this video 😇
What recycling company do you take it to? Our recycling trucks won't pick electronics up like that.
Companies in general should have a recycle plan for their products that is mandatory for every country. Makes recycling easier.
They do have a recycling plan, They send their trash to a place like this.
As someone who actually works in an E-waste place similar to this I can say at all places are like this. But I promise you little gets actually recycled. Metal gets melted down, computer boards get melted down for gold and plastic goes out to some factories in Asia to get melted down for power. Nothing much gets recycled. Oh and forget batteries, there’s no way to properly dispose of them besides jam packing them inside or underground. Both massive fire hazards,
I'm very grateful for this place - is there a similar place that will accept electronics from private individuals to recycle?
This business is a goldmine. Especially now during the chip shortage!
@Abdul Soleh The low supply makes the chips go up in price, and this company is recycling chips, which means they make more profit.
@@seasong7655 it is really hard though to refurbish silicon. That’s because silicon wafers that make CPUs and GPUs have to basically be flawless. Also companies are using less silver and gold than 10 years ago because it is more economical. It is a really hard and unforgiving business.
And to add, when there are imperfections in the silicon, companies just put it in cheaper less powerful hardware
Nothing they have is chips anyone wants today.
it would be better to make electricial goods in better quality, longer lasting and than we don´t need to throw them away every 2-3 years and recycle it
technology is ever advancing, so its extremely hard to achieve that goal rn
That is just what I have feel and have been hoping.
@@mikejones8808 Computer technology has been advancing like Microsoft Office.
The founder of this recycling center should be extremely proud of their vision. A credit to this planet!
Very glad places like this exist
Cool stuff! Too bad only 9% of plastic actually gets recycled apparently. Another documentary explained it. We need to do better all of us.
Depends on the plastic. Most household waste is too contaminated to be useful, the stuff that comes from this process though is clean, no food contamination, no paper contamination.
Would we eventually have to go to the landfills to mine things one day I wonder
Awesome to see so much girl power!👌can u please start a facility in new Zealand. ..we are soooo behind when it comes to e-waste. .most of plastic goes to landfill that's how backwards we are...even parent company established in nz would make happy for ever!...hats off to ingrid and her team😀jay
Thank you, madam, for building this recycling company. Power to women!
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This is actually the best idea I've heard of yet. Carefully remove the old parts of the computer, that you can reuse and then recycle what you can't re-purpose. That makes a lot of sense. A refurbished computer can work just as well or better sometimes, that a new computer. 17% of all electronics get recycled. That's good to know.
What are you going to use an old 500 GB IDE HDD for today? A paperweight?
@@1pcfred Recycle it?...
@@speed.daily1 not everything can be efficiently and economically recycled. How much effort would it take to accumulate enough HDDs in one place to make it viable? You cannot learn how to swim in ankle deep water. Sometimes you have to go all in. That is the problem we face in our waste stream management today. We haven't brought up to a level where it is worthwhile.
@@1pcfred Quite alot of it can be recycled or somtimes re-purposed though
@@speed.daily1 if it was any good no one would be throwing it away. Even if it was the random nature of the blend makes it not worthwhile to sort through. There's nothing you can do with mismatched parts. There's no practical way to even know what you have in many cases. How much electronics have you personally recycled? One of us here actually has. I happen to know it is me too.
Interesting video, important topic. Could've used a mention of companies like Fairphone and Framework at the end, which are actually working to make phones and laptops that last longer and are easier to take apart.
We need to hold companies accountable for the full life cycles of their products. They should be paying recyclers to take in their e-waste across the board. Putting the onus on the consumer and society as a whole is madness.
Now that's an operation. Holy smokes lol
Just an idea: there ought to be a law/certification requiring electronics manufacturers to make devices that are recyclable to a certain percentage (eg. different materials can be easily identified and pulled apart). Also shoutout to UK for standardizing USB-C as the only phone port allowed 👏
2:50 this is literally what i was born to do.
i'm amazing at taking things apart.
can't say the same for putting things back together tho lol
I have some old phones of mine and some more devices
Wich broke a few years ago
The only repair shop nearby is not trustable
So that's why i decided to keep the devices in a box
( packaged them carefully separated ) so when im older
And studied in mechanical stuff etc
That I maybe can repair some
And reuse the parts for different projects
Who else loves this Big Business series?