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Unfortunately the amount of recoverable material from a phone is negligible. It’s very difficult to recycle phones because first you have to remove the battery.
by Overtonwindow 4y ago
Unfortunately the amount of recoverable material from a phone is negligible. It’s very difficult to recycle phones because first you have to remove the battery.
- dymk 4y agoIs it? The process for recycling batteries is to shred them and then perform "industrial process" to separate out the useful stuff, basically like refining raw ore all over again. The phone, outside the battery, might contain a little bit of plastic and metal, and some glass. Seems the battery is the bulk of what one would want to recycle.
- Overtonwindow 4y agoYou absolutely cannot shred a lithium battery. It will explode. Any type of lithium battery and electronic makes it more expensive to recycle. They must remove that battery first. It would be super simple if we could just throw everything into a shredder, but lithium batteries are different.