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    2200lbs gold from Apple products

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

    Last edited by pjost; 04-17-2016 at 10:06 AM.
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    66,357,800 lbs. material recovered for reuse thru take back initiatives in 2015

    steel 23,101,000 lbs.
    plastics 13,422,360 lbs.
    aluminum 4,518,200 lbs.
    copper 2,953,360 lbs.
    cobalt 189,554 lbs.
    zinc 130,036 lbs.
    lead 44,080 lbs.
    nickel 39,672 lbs.
    silver 6,612 lbs.
    tin 4,408 lbs.
    gold 2,204 lbs.

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    lol I recovered about 35ozs last year so it was a close lol

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    Its the future, one day you will not actually even own the item you buy, you will just 'rent it' until its out of date or its guarantee finishes.
    Then you 'get' a new one.

    And all the metals inside will stay on the firms (ie, apples) books and you will have to pay if they don't get it back.

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    Outrageous numbers. That's all I have to say about that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by eesakiwi View Post
    Its the future, one day you will not actually even own the item you buy, you will just 'rent it' until its out of date or its guarantee finishes.
    Then you 'get' a new one.

    And all the metals inside will stay on the firms (ie, apples) books and you will have to pay if they don't get it back.
    Long ago some of the first light bulbs had filiments made of osmium. You rented the bulb, they had to be returned when no longer working.

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    Food for thought. Is it the impressive amount of gold or worse yet...how many broken iphones there were lol.
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    They said how much they recovered/made from scrap, but no mention on how much they spent to get it. My return numbers usually look good too until I subtract what I spent getting it and how many hours I put in. I'm sure they at least broke even though.. lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by jiffy117 View Post
    They said how much they recovered/made from scrap, but no mention on how much they spent to get it. My return numbers usually look good too until I subtract what I spent getting it and how many hours I put in. I'm sure they at least broke even though.. lol
    Well Apple sold the iPhones in the first place, so I'm guessing they made profit on both ends.

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    Quote Originally Posted by armygreywolf View Post
    Food for thought. Is it the impressive amount of gold or worse yet...how many broken iphones there were lol.
    Take into account the first iPhone, iPhone 2, iPhone 3, and probably broken iPhone 4's are rolling in, so umm, billions of iPhones? Since everybody "needs" the newest gadget.

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    Apple made a killing on tin ...
    Last I looked, real tin was over $6 a pound ...

    Also - whats stopping Apple from running their gadgets through a granulator to save the time + money of disassembly ?


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