What's in my phone? -1,000 Tons mobile scrap contain 350 kg Gold!

A few days ago, we have already written in the BASE blog about the love to your old mobile phone. But where the lures cherished sweetie, when it finally gives up the ghost - or a great smartphone at contract renewal?  May soon also mobile phones in a ton of value material can be disposed of, an appropriate basis for the Federal Cabinet on a proposal by Environment Minister Röttgen decided to end of March.
For us this is reason enough pursue course: which recyclables are actually in my mobile phone?
It is a mobile phone
Overall, 60 different raw materials in a regular cell phone be used. The plastic denies the majority with 56 percent. It is used mainly in the housing and the key mat. A quarter is made of metals such as lead and copper. For the LCD display and its liquid crystals, glass and ceramics used to 16 percent. Nothing, not even in a well-stocked kitchen. But now comes: every mobile phone has if also in a lesser proportion - the most precious metal of the world from: gold.
It is but gold what shines
The well-known science author and host ranga Yogeshwar has even offset for his TV program quarks & co. raw material conditions in mobile phones: mobile scrap with a weight of 1,000 tonnes contains, for example, 350 kg of gold worth about seven million euros. Very clear so that mobile phones have no place in the domestic waste - because on the one hand the combustion threatens the environment, on the other hand would be somewhat wasted.
Where the old cell phone?
According to estimates, 72 million mobile phones are currently unused in Germany's drawers. For this reason the E-Plus group cooperates with the nature conservation Association NABU. As a partner of the project "Old mobile phones for the Havel" E-Plus for any cell phone made for recycling donates up to three euros. The money comes Havel to good, as for example the large-scale nature conservation project lower special projects, this is the largest and most important wetland of Western Central Europe.
We have for a very good idea to keep cell phone recycling as waste are finally in the non-recyclable waste. But how you think it because so far with old mobile phones? Eke their existence as emergency unit in the glove box - the "gold coins" you may or may recycle equipment in the local recycling yard?
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