According to a growing school of thought, as summed up by Shred Tech’s David Yamamota: “The recovery of precious metals from electronic hardware can be more lucrative and cost-effective than is the mining the metals.”

Recycling of Handphone Materials on the Increase

Computers and peripherals can no longer be dumped for free in Japan, so scrap dealers comb the neighborhoods looking for throwaways.

There are two obvious options here: the first is to develop an electronic recycle business in Japan and the second is to invent a cost-effective way to extract these precious metals and then sell your know-how to the electronic giants and recycling firms of Japan.

See What Panasonic is doing in this respect:

Panasonic Claims Zero-Impact Recycling

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