How e-Waste Is Recycled | GreenShortz
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- Here's how e-waste gets recycled. Whole computers, televisions and printers in one end and shredded and sorted bits of metal, plastic and circuit board out the other and it is pretty cool to watch. Because of the toxic materials in e-waste it is important to make sure it gets recycled properly. PlasMet e-Solutions is an Atlanta, Georgia e-waste recycler. They help local communities add e-waste to their recycling programs. For more information visit www.plasmet.com
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Hello random people, who have an assignment to do on this video
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Environmental impact humans have on the environment
Same🙃
You said it best Tom. The consumer and the manufacturers are to blame. It is a vicious cycle. Reduce, recycle, reuse, repurpose, reinvent.
With computers instead of getting a new computer every couple of years just upgrade the motherboard. That’s one thing great about custom builds you can do that. Have software that measures how well the computer is running. Also have better fan and cooling systems to ensure runs a longer time. Have air filters to reduce dust in computer.
Designing things to look cool longer... That's a tall order. Manufacturing to easily break apart... That's much easier.
+Greg's Garage That's why designers need the Greg's Garage mantra (still under wraps)!
Agreed Tom. Btw.. Tried to message you on FB, not sure if it went through. No big deal... Also, forgot to mention earlier... Great video. There's a big debate about what happens to the e-waste. A lot of folks think the local companies strip the copper and gold, then send the rest to China so they can get past the environmental restrictions and just melt the stuff down. The process you showed clears that up completely.
Thanks Greg. I'll check for the message. Juan mentioned a discussion group.
But what happens to the Nokia 3310's? Those can't be killed lol.
Thanks for keeping clean
Why lie? While this is amazing , most of west's e waste gets dumped in poor third world, to be cleared by child labourers. So, plz support people who are doing us the favour ! More ppl like him shud be supported !
Not all recyclers do that some actually refine and process the material before sent out
One of the best ways to reduce the amount of electronic wastage is by not replacing our electronics too frequently.
Why throw something away if it's not broken?
Whenever people replace their televisions or whatever, the old one can be sold or given away for free as long as it still works.
In the event it is faulty or damaged, it's possible it could be repaired or sold for spare parts.
So why do you think he left out gold and silver? So you dont do it yourself and make your own money and so you will act like they are doing you a favor but in reality you are doing them the favor.
If you took out the parts that are still working you could easily sell them cheap and still make profit make a web sit with cheap components rather than shredding them you could get the material from a dvi cable and only make $0.04 or you could sell it for a dollar plus shipping and make a full profit of $1.00 and do that with all your electronics and you could make a lot more money
All phones should have easy ways to change parts or upgrade, most important the battery. I'm 10 years with my computer working fine because i could replace broken parts and upgrade the OS. Hope I could stay with my smartphone the same time.
funny how they only mentioned copper and not gold silver palladium and platinum... you know the REAL reason they want your E-waste in the first place. $$$
haha I had the same thought as I was watching. They were talking about the plastic as if it were the most valuable component.
How difficult is it to extract the valuable materials from the E-waste?
great info!
I'm learning about our local recycling so I can encourage them to do more
had me worried with the pile of plastic, copper, aluminum, etc..... that sorting machine is wonderful....
really great stuff.
Woww..thanks for the video..U can go miles man
people look for 70s 80s stereo conponents even if in nead of repair
I remember seeing some digital high end cameras on eBay being sold by a recycler. It does my heart good to know that someone at the recycler was keeping an eye out for high quality good stuff to save. I'd much rather see something being sold by the recycler and able to start a new life rather than being broken down to its most basic parts.
plenty of recyclers do this, recently found an e-waste on eBay who had a lot of laptops for half the price others are selling at.
Why isn't this a solution for third world countries where e-waste is dumped. This is ridiculous. There is a solution that no one is using.
The problem is not electronic equipment should be designed to last longer, the solution is to have less designs. For example having only one union design of TV or car or pc. Then manufacturers get permission to build it. Every five years it gets updated. Then second hand internal parts are reusable across the board. At the end of product life it is easier to sort and recycle.
Omg...all those copper electrical cords!!!!
It all about the dollar.there not paying for there charging . They should for crt’s tv’s copiers
why dont you sell pcs with no hdd or ssd s i need some lcd s cpus and more and you coud sell it for cheap prices why just why shred pc s i startet crying when watching this video sorry but dislike
Backside music is creating trouble.
This made me cry all the graphics cards and gaming pc and phones and cpus gone waaaaa!! Rip me
TheKittenGamer people are dumb, the best thing to do is resell it, or fix it so it isn't shredded
When I saw all of those desktop pcs I easily saw at least $200 their with all the components the case the DVD player the motherboard and the ram cards things like those that can make you money rather than wasted and shredded
Y'all are dumb that shit is junk for a reason noone would buy it how would you afford the man power to repair all that shit then where would you sell it at least if you break it down you can easily sell the metals and broken down components to be used for new electronics an the cycle goes on you can't keep just repairing junk theres already too much
@@DiegoGarcia-zj5oy heyy I would be curious what you think about Dalton's question :) Do you know about a cost-efficient way to do it? And if not, how can we make it cost-efficient, like everyone learns to deconstruct their own stuff...more ideas
Diego Garcia the rams and hard drives and graphics cars are removed before shredding.
It appears this place is permanently closed.
Dont most e waste companies just resell it on eBay?
Please don't recyle smartphones, you can resell them and make money or give them to kids or people who need them, instead of getting them shredded
I heard in some places the police actually accepts used phones to hand to people in need. Like a victim, they're caring for, and sometimes the computers are given to cops to use as well.
Does this earn good money starting a new bussiness like this? Im new to knew to this and i want to know where i can gain more knowldge about this..
What's the purpose of the background "music"?
Medical condition dies need me to computer science data intelligence collector any more for them thanks.
I. WANT. ALL. THE. COMPUTERS.
Funny he mentions aluminum, copper, but no pm
How ewaste gets recycled....dump it in Pakistan or China and the peasants deal with it XD
Cameron Thompson not funny
@@goosty17 Wasn't meant to be. Its making light of how we are told ewaste is recycled vs the reality.
Which stimulates their economy and provides their citizenry with employment.
@@BigPMaher an releases plastic fumes and heavy metals into the enviorment
Really interesting
amazing
i had to do a homework with it
In our generation, we are watching this stuff mainly because the schools tell us to. But considering that this educational juiciness is not only cool to know but also important for society, why don't we watch stuff like this all the time?
What a waste. I know some things are completely kaput, but some are saveable. I found a 1970's record player, complete with speakers, on our local dump. It was in very nice condition, and needed the BSR motor board serviced, adjusted, and the potentiometers sprayed with Servisol, a good clean, and away she went again. Sold it for £30, about $40, to someone who wanted a record player, and not one of those horrible chinese Crosley things !
I'll agree on the waste angle. So many people have no idea how to fix stuff. I can tell from your comment that you know what you are doing. At this plant they had a 4x4x4 box nearly full of Canon DSLRs and lenses. They had actually pulled them out to check them to see if they still worked.
Thanks for that, other things I've found were a brand new, unused, electric crockpot, a cyclonic Hoover that merely needed a good clean to get it going, and a very old set of early LED Xmas lights. Just needed a suitable power supply and away they went. I often salvage audio items, as things such as cassette recorder heads are getting hard to come by, very often you'll find an all-in-one with a kaput CD but the tape player's never been used ! It can often be re-used to make an older cassette sing again though, and of course 8-tracks, reel-to-reels, and even rare STEREO microcassettes seek repairs or sanctuary here. As you can probably tell I restore older equipment and my home's something of a museum of electric appliances. I've a 1920's cylinder Hoover, a Hoover 375 from 1932, and an ancient tea kettle from july, 1940.
Thankfully my Tennesseean wife loves old things too. Happy Holidays, warm regards, River.
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Nice explanation!!
I hate college
I read that there is potential for big business and $ in E waste, potentially more profitable than traditional trash/recycling. Does anyone know how true this is?
goes straight to India
Good job
By today's standards, it doesn't matter what they design a product to look like. If its not the latest model, its not considered "cool"
can I have your Facebook Id..?
Nice dude
How is recycling for them a business, but apparently super cost inefficient for most places where electronics just get shipped away?
Older pioneer kenwood stereo components from 1970s 80s are saut after are they shredded or sold as is
Thanks Jason and dave and danny
We like how shredded become
Round up clean up thanks
Hey Tom, Thank you for this video! It was very handy and helped a lot with the paper I am writing on the topic.
you guys are making money on the gold silver and all the other good stuff and dont pay the customers
then break it all down and recycle and sell it yourself
i do idiot
Good c:
That was really helpful
Could we get job too
When i see all those elctronics just thorn to bits, makes my heart bleed
hello sir !!
Do you have any idea about how much it costs in setting up such a huge industry...?
+rahul thandu I don't know how much this e-waste facility cost to build, but I know it was multiple millions.
electronic scrap in the United States
Agbogbloshie: am I a joke to you?
Shred
Why not just take your e waste to your local scrap yard, they will pay you for it rather than give it to this company for free.
Because it shouldn't matter about the damn money, we should try to save our planet for our future people to enjoy and not be so damn greedy.
hucks33 the scrap yard won't do anything to keep the toxic materials out of your local environment and in many cases the old electronics are shipped overseas and become mountains of dangerous waste piled up in poor neighbourhoods
+hydrolisk1792 Naive. Money always matters. If saving the planet is your obsession than do you know what could help you do that? Money.
+xcvsdxvsx Making money by doing the thing that is against your morals? Sometimes things are worth doing for more than financial gain. We are shepherds of the planet, yes we reap the benefits of the resources we have, but greed and recklessness can easily taint those resources. Who says we can't make money AND leave things as good or better than when we found them? Is that really such a mind blowing and unachievable concept? You really don't understand why someone like hydrolisk1792 would support a company that benefits not only him but his entire community? Nothing but pure selfishness will do so, our only concern is personal benefit... say hello to the tragedy of the commons.
If your a scraper like me
Run!!!
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Fascinating. Thank you!
Too bad this place is closed now. :-(
I Wonder ! Why !?
I would have taken those speakers at the beginning..
WHO WILL BUY THIS RECYCLED E-WASTE PLEASE SAY TOM MILLS
Custom built pc I think are the way to go. A full atx case with a full power supply shouldn’t need to be upgraded for a long time. Swapping out an ATX motherboard, processor and RAM should be the things that are done. Build motherboards with standard processor sockets, RAM sockets, and other sockets that could last a lot longer. Just upgrade the processor, Ram and the Video Cards. Minimize the number of times the whole computer has to be replaced.
That's Against BILL GATES ! And MICROSOFT'S !! RELIGION !!
@@davidwillard7334 They really have not much to say in that. I mean that make a few computer but they are not really computer manufactures. One was a CEO and Microsoft is a software company and a cloud company. All in all its about how much money the computer manufactures can make with their machines and continue selling new machines. I guess the best thing is how we can take these old computers break them down into raw materials and send them back to where they eventually become computers or other electronics. The other thing is working toward doing all this with getting a higher percentage recycled and lowering the cost at the same time.
Oh lawd. Someones been watching venus project documentaries. Dude. We have so much ewaste because technology gets better quickly. It's not a conspiracy and its a good thing. This is an insignificant cost relative to the benefits.
I'm not one to stand in the way of technology. And you are correct about the pace of technology. It would be nice if gadgets were designed with swappable processors, components, etc, to make the more resilient elements usable for a longer lifecycle while upgrading speed and storage, etc.
I would love to get all the electronics
Great video
WONDERFUL VIDEO!!
The music is so so so loud.
What a waste ....
If they would only separate electronic parts, and resale them, that would make much diffrence.
i see lots on ebay do you sell on ebay
+David Bergquist I have sold some on eBay a while back. Agree with you that they best use for "e-waste" that still works is for what it was initially designed to do...which is even more awesome when it was meant to rock!
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Nice!
If your you a scraper reply
why did i watch this? lol
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i wanna work at a place like this
Yeah. It was pretty cool to see the materials getting broken down into bits of commodities. Thanks for watching.
oof
Really interesting ones i have ever seen
Do you know any e-waste recycling facility in Toronto?
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Sir, I want to make project on this topic, can you guide me for model or prototype please?
may can i have the companys email address or atleast a some other contact to save our india also and i wana also have a e wastage industry
Hi Rishik. They actually closed this location. Bummer. I think they may have another location. Try Googling their name. That may get you a contact email.
thats grt thnk you
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100th comment on a video no one watches anymore yeah
Thanks for watching Braeden. Every view counts. :-)
@@Green_Shortz Ok Boomer
We need less durable stuff , so we can change stuff after warranty... 😎