Apple Recovered 2,204 pounds of Gold from Iphones in 2015

[FC-Treasure]

I saw this last week and meant to post.... Over 1 ton of gold from recycling electronics!

Details:

Apple processed 90 million pounds of old electronics and extracted

2,204 pounds of gold
3 million pounds of copper
6,600 pounds of silver
23 million pounds of steel
13 million pounds of plastic
12 million pounds of glass
4.5 million pounds of aluminum

Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold from broken iPhones last year - Apr. 15, 2016

 

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[kcm]

That's a lot of phones!!

 

[maipenrai]

Sounds like they would make more money, just going in the scrap business!