There's Gold In Them There Cell Phones
The report runs the numbers on the financial value waiting to be extracted from dead mobiles: if all closet-sitting cell phones were recycled, they would yield $314 million worth of metal; they would also comprise 10% of the nation's recycled silver market, and 18% of its recycled gold market. If all the retired phones were recycled as well as the dust-collectors, the metal would be worth almost $400 million.
Hmmm. Now if we could only "recycle" their habitual users . . .
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