The gold jewellery made from old phones

Hello e-waste community! I just came across this really interesting article explaining how the Royal Mint, the UK's official coin producer, has been recovering metals from electronic waste. They have patented a clean, energy-efficient way which could extracts up to 99% of gold from the printed circuit boards found inside discarded laptops and old mobile phones.

This particularly interesting because
a. Gold is rare and the environmental cost of mining ore to get just a tiny amount of gold is enormous.
b. 155,000 tonnes of small electrical waste - containing gold and other recyclable materials- is thrown away every year.
c. 7% of the world's gold is currently sitting in disused electronics.

I really find urban mining - recovering precious metals from existing waste products - incredibly fascinating. And you?

Read the article below to find out more!