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For some resources such as copper, it might actually be environmentally net positive to recycle to old copper and buy new.
by throwaway43234 6y ago
For some resources such as copper, it might actually be environmentally net positive to recycle to old copper and buy new.
- Scoundreller 6y agoAnd about $5 in gold in a 486 chip: https://www.ozcopper.com/computer-cpu-gold-yields/ https://www.ozcopper.com/computer-cpu-gold-yields/
- kjs3 6y agoCitation needed. I know a ton of folks who bought those things by the cubic yard for the metals, and only managed to make an environmental mess with little dollar return.
- throwaway43234 6y agoThere's much less volume of copper in a RPi than a 486, so if you recycle your 386 to get a Rpi, the net copper reserve increases.