I will add a little bit to what Ewasted said .To send your product to a refiner you will have to meet the weight requirements dictated by the terms of your contract. Before a company sends any product to a refiner or is offered any terms by the refiner they must first submit to a application process that consists of background, Financial standings ..etc…etc… and usually this will be the basis for your contracted terms. In short the more you have to offer the refiner over time will reflect your overall relationship and terms with them.
An EXAMPLE to minimal weight requirements required for your first shipment 15mt of circuit boards is usually required if you were going to just send memory they would probably ask for a minimal 4mt and if you were going to just send IC’s/CPU’s then they would ask for 2mt .
In short all said and done the mill will absorb 20% + , less if you are a large ongoing supplier. Those numbers do not include any labor, shipping or finance charges. Those numbers don’t reflect the difference in the metals market during the average 120 days it takes to mill your lot.
There are smaller refiners that claim to refine your material and will accept less then industry standard weights but for the most part unless you’re sending them High Grade product ( Pins, Cpu’s..etc..etc..) EPA standards restrict the amount of E-waste incinerated annually in the USA by any one registered company and these companies usually just middle man your product to one of the large out of country mills.
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