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How about a portable shredder right in the store, with a nice big glass window on it? Bring your phones in and let your kid drop them in the shredder and watch

• sofixa 3y ago
  There are lots of parts that can and should be recycled (at the very least the battery), so that sounds like a waste.
  • chongli 3y ago
    They could have tools there to quickly pop out the battery so you can recycle it separately from the rest of the phone.
    • sgtnoodle 3y ago
      They would need to pay a technician to do that. Having the typical consumer do that would definitely result in injury and fire.
      • JohnFen 3y ago
        Only because of how they're installed. This is yet another reason why we should go back to having user-replaceable batteries.
  • 0cf8612b2e1e 3y ago
    Serious question, but how do they intentionally recycle phones/batteries/ ewaste? My first guess would that everything goes through a shredder. Precious metals and plastics are then separated because any kind of disassembly at scale would be infeasible.
    • opwieurposiu 3y ago
      High value items are disassembled by robot, like in the case of iPhones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC81peMLEfo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC81peMLEfo Medium value stuff is shredded into a big pile and then they leach the gold off it with cyanide. It has a much higher concentration of gold then raw gold ore. Low value stuff is shipped to poor countries where the copper is extracted by burning and picking through the ash. Very toxic process.