HOW IT WORKS | Computer Recycling | Free Documentary

HOW IT WORKS - Computer Recycling | Free Documentary

[robertcuminale]

I had a customer years ago who recycled computer trash for big corporations. He also hauled off copiers.They would pay him $20 each to disconnect them and haul them away. Part of his contract required wiping the hard drives clean. Spot checks were made by grabbing a few computers and trying to see if there was any data on them.
After he'd gotten the precious metals he had a scrap yard buying the steel from the cases. Another company bought the ABS plastic and ground it into pellets. It would then be purified and made into things using steam injection into molds. GE used to be a big buyer of ABS plastic. Even the plugs on telephone cords and telephone jacks had 50 mils of gold on them.
He also got to keep all the power strips even brand new ones in the packages. When a company buys a thousand computers they start with everything new even the battery backups. In the end he had very little scrap that needed to go to the dump.

[jmackinjersey]

I have a friend that taught me how to do this in his garage, back in the late 1980's. Obviously we didn't do it on a scale as large as this though. We would drive around and find electronic equipment being thrown away, take it to his house and separate the parts and pieces. We would take the metal housing and other parts to the recycling plant as well. It does take a lot of computers and stereos and televisions to make an ingot though. In fact, sometimes it would take a few months of collecting and smelting to make any money though. The best time to collect is spring, when many are cleaning their houses, and the Christmas season, when people are throwing out their old stuff to make room for their new stuff. He also had a large bin in front of his house with a sign saying to throw old electronics in for recycling, as well as an ad in the newspaper.

[ManyManyPandas]

R.I.P. old computers, I will miss you! I always loved you.

[tacticallizard]

As a electric technolog I love this kind of videos :)

[phabi]

Learn this lesson, kids: it's never about the environment. It's ALWAYS about the money! Bwahahhaha

[TomLymberopoulos-duhe]

I am always fascinated by recycling videos, restoring old HiFi, Furniture, or Cars

[TheOutsiderStudios]

Imagine all that data that was on those computers...Homework, old photos, games, porn, etc.

[MaghoxFr]

When I want to recycle an old computer I just install linux in it and runs like a charm.

[DeutscheMieze]

I worked in this company from the video.... not much money but really fun. in a separate room, we cut the thick cable from the monitors and television sets to get the copper seperate from the plastic... in sommer it was a very sticky job

[KeuzySC]

"gold in old hard drives."
>proceeds to show gold in PCI components
>these guys just called the tower a hard drive

[mojave]

Right now there's some high school kids asking their chemistry teacher, "When are we ever going to use this".

[abinicoarts]

Free documentary - wow, thanks, I am really sick and tired of paying for my documentaries.

[TopAnimeBetrayals]

"This salt may not be good for fish and chips, but it's excellent for computer chips"


So much cringe, I even grinned

[purnamagar]

I never knew there contains gold in computer chips & rams!!! I gave my old computers to garbage collectors almost for free! Now only I got new insight. Thank you!

[smilncynic]

There's gold in them there microprocessors!

[hadmatter]

I used to know a guy who had lived on the streets for decades and salvaged all the metal he could find (that was valuable enough, of course) and told me you could salvage gold from CPUs. I should've saved all the ones I tossed out over the years :( What I think is truly funny about this, though, is that they extract all the gold from the other parts and _sell it back_ to the companies that make processors.

[hooch]

I love how they make it sound so easy lol, they don't show how many thousands and thousands of ol PC's it takes to make a gold bar like the one they showed.  I watched a guy cut off the teeth of about 60 memory sticks one day, put it in numerous solutions and then over a kiln, the total time he had into this occurred over 5 days, he pulled 1.8 grams of gold lol, that's like getting paid .60 cents an hour

[heroineadict]

This is why gold has so much value today. It's by far one of the greatest conductive matters in the world.

[tdombui]

"this salt may not be so good for fish n chips, but it is excellent for computer chips"

[johneygd]

That gold recycling is amezing and awesome to watch, i can watch this video 24;7 a day.
as a result, , , GOLD, GOLD, all i can see is GOLD!!!