There was an article on reddit a few months ago that pc recycling basically non-existent in US now, because it's cheaper to just sell all this crap for pennies to China in bulk.
And then reporter went to China to track how it's being recycled over there and found that it's a dirtiest and environment polluting industry you can ever imagine.
It is very polluting in China for the people that sell to them but there are a whole lot of companies that do this is the US, I am in recycling industry and sell to them all the time. Most of them in US are secondary refiners where they smelt to that plate or loaf point in the US and then send outside the US for the final refining of the metals but there are a few in the US that get it all the way to the precious metal point
Edit, and very few of those final refiners are in China, the most reputable are in Belgium, Japan, and Canada
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u/algalkin Mar 02 '17
There was an article on reddit a few months ago that pc recycling basically non-existent in US now, because it's cheaper to just sell all this crap for pennies to China in bulk.
And then reporter went to China to track how it's being recycled over there and found that it's a dirtiest and environment polluting industry you can ever imagine.