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What would be properly recycling electronics, if not extracting the metals? should the worthless based board to be melted and used for bottles?
by Fargren 9mo ago
What would be properly recycling electronics, if not extracting the metals? should the worthless based board to be melted and used for bottles?
- sejje 9mo agoIsn't that the point of recycling? To reuse the reusable materials like plastic?
- Fargren 9mo agoIf salvaging 100% of the materials that make up something is the only way to "properly" recycle, we are not recycling anything properly. Some components are not recyclable. I won't speculate about whether the plastic on the board is recyclable, or ecological to recycle. I don't know. This is what I'm asking.
- adrianN 9mo agoNot burning all the ICs and all the other components that still work perfectly fine would be a good start imo.
- Fargren 9mo agoThat would fall under Reuse rather than Recycle. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are in the order of best to worst. Recycling is the last ditch effort to not completely waste something. It's always going to feel like a half measure, because it is.
- adrianN 9mo agoI would say reusing a "disposable" vape would be refilling it and recharging or exchanging the battery, not salvaging it for parts.
- shibapuppie 9mo agoTo do WHAT with? Catalog and categorize the millions of random penny-priced ICs that MIGHT be usable for something else?
- adrianN 9mo agoThat there is no way to recycle electronics economically is the reason that they are not recycled. I don't claim otherwise.