2008-01-10 - A Recycled Laptop's Journey, Part 2: Doing the Job
Right Source: TechNewsWorld (Andrew Burger) Precious, rare earth
and base metals -- such as indium, lithium, bismuth, ruthenium,
platinum, nickel and gold -- are essential to producing PCs, and
prices for them have been rising dramatically in recent years.
Their higher prices, along with advances in recapturing them
from e-waste and the development of a supporting recycling
industry value chain, is making recycling more economically
feasible. Part 1 of this series looks into the issue of PC
recycling and following the course of a hypothetical laptop
through the recycling process. Continuing down this path, this
part will consider another situation: Laptop owner Joe Verdi
doesn't own a laptop from a brand name OEM with a take-back
program...