#25, funny you should talk about the gold... There are actually groups of people who go to the dump, collect motherboards and what not, and process the small amounts of gold out of them and actually make gold bricks.
You can also search google for "gold from computers", etc.
Takes alot of work, but if you have the time and like the dump, why not? haha.
And for the people complaining about recycling them... don't you have a recycle bin at home? Here in california we get a black one for trash, green for recycle, and brown for lawn/plant debris... it's not too hard to just put it in another can.... unless they are going to force us to drive to a place to recycle them, then that is just nuts. No way I'm going to care that much about recycling electronics until the government cares a bit more about the price of gas here. lol.
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#25, funny you should talk about the gold... There are actually groups of people who go to the dump, collect motherboards and what not, and process the small amounts of gold out of them and actually make gold bricks.
Here's an article: http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2003/06/16/smallb1.html
You can also search google for "gold from computers", etc.
Takes alot of work, but if you have the time and like the dump, why not? haha.
And for the people complaining about recycling them... don't you have a recycle bin at home? Here in california we get a black one for trash, green for recycle, and brown for lawn/plant debris... it's not too hard to just put it in another can.... unless they are going to force us to drive to a place to recycle them, then that is just nuts. No way I'm going to care that much about recycling electronics until the government cares a bit more about the price of gas here. lol.