How 6 Million Pounds Of Electronic Waste Gets Recycled A Month | Big Business

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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How 6 Million Pounds Of Electronic Waste Gets Recycled A Month | Big Business

[excitedbox]

In the future we will be mining landfills because the metals concentration is higher than in ore.

[Taooflu]

I’m so glad places like this exist, there’s a glimmer of hope.

[kittywabbit]

“I don’t know if I have access.. oh I do nehehehe” - the lady that literally runs the place

[morkovija]

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

[anonykip]

Planned obsolescence should be illegal. That is the only reason we have so much electronic waste.

[MedEighty]

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.

[wparo]

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.

[dylanchng]

printers ewaste can be drastically decreased if monopoly on ink jet did not exist.

[ujjwalpathak]

And companies like apple say they care about the environment while all they care about is money.

[Pulseczar]

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.

[danlam]

We need more companies like this to make the world better.

[dsimpson]

"NICE printers get eaten up and ground up." We all know how "Nice" printers can be.

[ChazzyChazzGaming]

Imagine throw away your hard drive and buy a new one on ebay, then you found out that is your old hdd

[uthmanbaksh]

Seeing old tech getting recycled and eventually made into new tech is satisfying to watch!

[jamespn]

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.

[sutats]

Sally is our big shredder, Ginger is our metal finder.
"Heidi is German"
WTF

[gfresh]

Very cool to understand this process. We take much for granted in our technologically driven society.

[creamandcream]

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!

[asjadazeez]

And then we have apple that doesn't allow third party repair or Apple repair for that matter.

[lampshade]

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 🙌