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A look at “urban mining” and the cost for those sifting

A look at “urban mining” and the cost for those sifting through the debris #shorts

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“CBS Sunday Morning”

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  1. Specifically read a few articles on this practice also known as e waste dismantlement. E waste are the leftover products of dismantling technology with no protection or safe disposable methods.

    Notoriously; engine oil, ink jet primer, toxic fumes built up inside electronics and various other toxins are so potent that they cause many horrific conditions such as toxin poisoning, some forms of cancer, and generally poison any natural material in comes into contact with resulting in the junkyards and streams adjacent to them becoming hotspots for future waterway poisoning.

  2. Love how they are breaking open refrigerant compressors. It's illegal if they still have refrigerant in them as it is a EPA violation and a big fine in the USA because it's bad for the ozone layer and they get to do it without any environmental agency around.

  3. Another example how is Middle/poor class are gonna be if we don't do something about financial inequality. There should definitely be a universal income that can only be spent on bills or food.

  4. There isn't that much gold in these things. The biggest quantity of metal is copper. Copper for the wires, copper for the printed circuit boads.

    The only gold is on:
    1. Gold plate on connectors
    2. Gold plate on card edge connectors (and you see even less of those these days)
    3. Gold bond wires inside integrated circuit chips
    4. Gold pins on some types of integrated circuits

  5. All for safer workplaces but how is my man’s job related to the temperature here? He’s probably going to be outside anyway, or in a non air conditioned building with no ventilation

  6. I have seen people melt electronics down and the temperatures they heat them at separates out the precious metals. Constant reheating for the materials to seperate them off. Less work but more plastic pollution in the end….

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