{"id":16624,"date":"2014-06-24T13:15:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T19:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=16624"},"modified":"2014-06-24T13:15:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T19:15:28","slug":"urban-mining-theres-gold-dem-dar-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/urban-mining-theres-gold-dem-dar-cell-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Mining: There&#8217;s Gold in Dem Dar Cell Phones! [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unprocessed <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2011\/05\/e-waste-management-infographic\/\">e-waste<\/a>, as we&#8217;ve noted many, many times, is pretty nasty stuff: a mishmash of chemicals and metals that can leach into the ground, and pollute soil and water if not handled properly. Proper <a href=\"http:\/\/greenbuildingelements.com\/2010\/11\/17\/e-waste-recycling-made-easy\/\">recycling<\/a>\u00a0keeps all those compounds where they need to be: either professionally remediated, or fed back into the industrial production stream after processing.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds kind of ho-hum if you&#8217;re not into industrial processes&#8230; until you find out that there&#8217;s gold in those phones: literally. Yep, gold is one of the metals commonly used in electronics, and it can be recovered. Such &#8220;urban mining&#8221; has itself been a fairly toxic process in the past, but the National Metallurgical Lab in Jamshedpur, India, has devised a new method for extracting that precious metal without, say, burning, or cyanide, or more time-intensive processes like bioleaching.<\/p>\n<p>Now, don&#8217;t go trying to the gold out of those old phones you&#8217;ve got laying around &#8211; this is a job for professionals. And while there&#8217;s not a lot in your individual phone, \u00a0cell phone recyclers will likely be able to turn this new process into a substantial revenue stream. Check out the details in the infographic below &#8211; provided to us by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecyclebest.com\/resources\/infographics\/heigh-ho-to-waste-hello-to-urban-mining\">e-waste handlers eCycle Best<\/a>. If you&#8217;ve got thoughts, share &#8217;em&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Need to see a larger version of the graphic? 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