Based on my experiences in eWaste: Tech thats not getting properly recycled is LCD Monitors, was CRT's but they became profitable to mine for copper and gold.

Based on my experiences in eWaste: Tech thats not getting properly recycled is LCD Monitors, was CRT's but they became profitable to mine for copper and gold. People are too sensitive to scratches on their screen and just throw it out. Once a monitor hits an eWaste bin that only gets worse. But the much larger problem with eWaste is packaging. Theres more packaging, with different grades of plastic, than there is shit inside of it that can be repaired or recycled. Phones are collected and recycled. Batteries are collected, sorted and recycled. Ancient Desktop computers are often marked as scrap, "recycled" to a developing country where they are suddenly reborn as... desktop computers and live a third or fourth life. Otherwise desktops are fairly recoverable, they go straight to "ex government" style stores, ebay, what have you. Laptops are pretty bad too, because of the integrated screen. Hard drives, some people like to destroy instead of wipe for security reasons. But the metals are fairly recoverable. Networking gear tends to live on in someones home or study lab, or it goes to developing nations. I actually find that appliances were quite unlikely to even hit an ewaste bin, likely going to landfill instead.