How 9 Billion Phones Are Powered By Rare Metals | Business Insider Marathon

[@SarahSmith-zj2ek]

I think there's a lie in here. You said for electronic recycling it requires corporations and consumers to properly dispose of their devices. I think this misses a very large part of the e-recycling problem. If corporations designed their products with recycling in mind, it would be much easier.

[@shadowmod3]

there are lies in all corp propaganda. they are WORSE than govts.

[@TheKanguru]

its called Planned obsolescence. look it up.

[@RM360CR]

This i sstill very toxic because the chemicals energy intensive and costly time is running out to design electronics to be easily recycle or the entire planet will pay a price.

[@MEGANOlandisKahn]

The problem is the product is not as good with second hand parts. So finding a recyclable substitute might affect the devices performance. Engineers don't just choose things willy nilly.

[@gamesguy]

Companies tried that, consumers like you who claimed to want repairable phones and easier to recycle phones didn't buy it because it cost more and is bulkier. Words are cheap, actions speak much louder than words.

[@j.jarvis7460]

thanks to whoever put this collection together. couldn't have been easy.

[@techcafe0]

Companies like Apple, Samsung and others should be legally responsible for the complete lifecycle of their products, including recycling.

[@JohnDir-xw3hf]

And they should make their products repairable.

[@techcafe0]

@@JohnDir-xw3hf i absolutely agree, right to repair should be enshrined in law

[@pedrohenriques2983]

@@JohnDir-xw3hfI used to think that way also , but once you open an iPad you understand why it can’t be repaired it’s just to small and fragile components inside . One could only imagine how do they to put all together

[@JohnDir-xw3hf]

@@pedrohenriques2983 it because of software lock not size

[@CT-vm4gf]

All companies should.

[@karstenfuhrmann1743]

Cobalt is also used in the desulphurization of petroleum. So combustion engines do need it as well.

[@MrAirblown2009]

The DRC cobalt mine reminded me of a taste of what ancient Egypt must have looked like. Minus the whips

[@peterzz4266]

I like how you just casually add in the guy eats coca leafs for energy lol.

[@Sulfen]

It's very common in some countries in South America to chew on coca leaves.

[@dontbelazy3136]

@@Sulfen In other words, it's very common in some countries to be criminals.

[@Phooenixification]

And then after goes casually to a random house and buys dynamite from a small hatch in the wall 😂 I laughed so hard but cried inside how fucked up the world is, i mean how they showed how he and his wife house looked. Such grim lives some people live.

[@SeanoMcCool18]

@@dontbelazy3136 it's legal in Bolivia, and important culturally

[@bradstock7274]

@@dontbelazy3136 the laws of your country dont matter in other countries. Its not criminal in Bolivia. smh

[@kidkique]

If yr itching to learn about chemistry, metallurgy, geology, etc., this video is 10% that, and 90% focused on sociological and environmental issues.

[@regisalexanderjr]

@20:16 my man poppin a few coca leave to chew...

[@727SolutionsCoatings]

I love it "you have done enough" spoken like someone who has done no wrong.

[@MrZombs123]

I mean, this is crazy n all… but whats really crazy is that big ass bag of coca leaves to give that guy “energy”. Can I get a bag, i could use some energy too! 😂

[@GreenMetalsInvestor]

This is a great review of rare earth metals - this is where the shortages will be, invest accordingly

[@bunsdad4530]

I’m not sure there will ever be a true shortage of rare earth minerals Just a capitalist caused shortage

[@BadhanDasgupta]

A closed loop recycling plant for these metals is not something I thought I'd see so soon and before other proper recycling solutions, like one for plastic.

[@mattymatt1979]

U said they dont have access to gloves? Those metals in his hands give the breakfast sandwiches he makes that chefs kiss!

[@enzohenriquez6303]

What an awesome video

[@shadowmod3]

trust but verify.

[@matthodel946]

What a bust with the lithium mines and how much water is pulled from below ground. Messed up!

[@nostalgic_pokemon_memories]

phones & ev cars are not worth ruining the planet

[@fernandoneugart]

Waow. Ur so right.. If they keep making these things, the earth lifespan will go down from 1.39 billion... to 700 million...

[@derekspringer6448]

​​@@fernandoneugartUm... the Earth is 4.54 billion years old already son... So your projections make zero sense.

[@fernandoneugart]

@@derekspringer6448 lifespan as in the time remaining do read next time

[@oneshothunter9877]

May be you'd stick to your Pokemon cards. 😀

[@majorlobster3443]

@@fernandoneugart Last time i checked, lifespan means the length of time an organism lives, from birth to death. YOU, do read next time.

[@charlesbryson7443]

All those poor kids slaving in mines to make batteries for our “electric life” is ridiculous.

[@slappy8941]

There is no part of civilization that can work without slavery in some form. This has been true since the first farm was founded.

[@NoidoDev]

Seems to be the best use of their time, otherwise they wouldn't do it. Human labor is also very energy efficient.

[@vegetto2024]

The beauty of unchecked capitalism.

[@Zt3v3]

More like corporatocracy, but I got your point.

[@Alex-nb7on]

@@Zt3v3 no, capitalism, actually

[@TnJxss]

The lithium mining & copper mining operation is literally heinous & electric cars aren’t helping

[@usranger175]

Fungi that’s awesome

[@TheSnoeedog]

My friend gus passed away a few years ago....he was a fun guy

[@songofseikilos8659]

@@TheSnoeedog I'm sorry for your loss... but i appreciate your humor.

[@TheSnoeedog]

@@songofseikilos8659 thank you. I appreciate that more than you possibly know (he was my best friend) Live well, Laugh readily, Love. Unconditionally. *AND TELL JOKES!!*

[@konokiLuong]

I started in my mom garage selling computer but so did steve job success is to start 🎉

[@petehoney1]

should be a global pollution tax a kind of consumption tax to clean up waste and pay to protect oxygen producing forrests etc

[@abotani662]

We humans are digging our own graves!

[@songofseikilos8659]

always have been so....

[@geners76]

23:46 where in the USA are they testing the new tech for extractional filtration? Ty in advance

[@naso724]

Love these comments , everyone commenting from their bloody phones made from these People 😂

[@nukester.]

what is your logic? No ones phones are made from People. And are you saying that people are not allowed to criticize something about phones if they might use phones at all?

[@joefer5360]

26:43 Casually buys stick of dynamite like a Looney Tunes skit.

[@maxheadrom3088]

7:10 Nice server boards.

[@pcman87654]

That ryobi wire cutter has got to be the worst purchase ive ever seen

[@CT-vm4gf]

It’s a garden pruner, and he didn’t purchase it. It was e-waste.

[@pcman87654]

@@CT-vm4gf thank god

[@hoomanyeganeh3598]

Continued Scientific Exploration 😂😂😂

[@yeshuaweha1862]

1:07:40 Out of topic... Indonesian family are awesome...

[@songofseikilos8659]

all families are awesome

[@oneshothunter9877]

Amazing how people can adapt. Big respect to those we see in here in this piece and many, many others doing what they can do to survive and thrive. Meanwhile, in my country people crying that there's no jobs, No money - while being on social welfare programs.

[@Jack-xo2zp]

It's good that the electronics industry employs so many people, giving them jobs.

[@deadskinconsumption]

This will never counteract the blood shed that is happening to this day for these metals.

[@ClarkWhite81]

Its good thing no one fights against evolution and people that make money be a thing for land/water/fruits :)

[@louwhite4036]

alcohol, coke and dynamite? what could go wrong? 🤣

[@rhoderickserra1138]

How i wish we have this in the Philippines.

[@metatron4804]

Rio Tinto devils

[@HULLGRAFFITI]

Better to mine for gold in places where you know for a fact it's there , it's excellent to know ppl are doing this

[@broncoteno7181]

Ive seen places in New Mexico where Micah just like that is all over the ground on the side of mountains.

[@kylelangdon169]

amazing how the poorest people always have the most kids.guess that means family is more important than money and knowledge.

[@stayarmy3426]

or they can’t afford contraception… this is why there are growing populations in developing countries compared to advanced economies and developed countries. simply they can afford the sex education and contraceptions to be able to control how many kids they want in a more advanced economy.

[@MorganMadej]

Contraception would help on the numbers, but religion and a families need for Sons does not help!

[@SykPaul]

might be crazy but an increase from 9% to 15% is not a "slightly better" increase

[@mikeguitar9769]

Recycling is up 67%! /s

[@julianshalders6047]

The poor always make the rich richer.

[@RussellD11]

7:15 so we extract the valuable metals and then poisen the water supply for our neighboorhoods children... Sounds like a fair trade off huh? Money always wins!

[@nicholaiginovaef4861]

step 1: get some alcohol, coca leaves and a couple sticks of dynamite step 2: stop by and see uncle step 3: get down into the mine

[@OfCourseIStillLoveU]

I'm thankful and happy that some people on the world do these jobs, but at the same time I'm happy that I don't need to be one of them.

[@YXuanLam0407]

You said for electronic recycling it requires corporations and consumers to properly dispose of their devices.

[@amboklulu8567]

Problem with recycling ewaste if not recycled properly like those poor people who burn the whole item to get the thing needed cause toxic/poison air community

[@jamesv4463]

cant wait to become a scavenger. like for real

[@mikeguitar9769]

Maybe it would be good to use desalination tech and/or conserve fresh water in the desert.

[@mikeguitar9769]

The miners want to remove water from brine. The locals want water. Wouldn’t it be a win-win if there was a way to harvest the freshwater that is being evaporated from the brine?

[@MelliniFrisca]

My home bangka belitung island, Indonesia

[@Justakirbb]

Um what the sigma is happening in the comments💀

[@imfloridano5448]

Why aren't they using high frequency vibrations after the circuit board is turned into a powder to separate the metals from the board material. The board materials can be used in new composite circuit boards

[@spencers4121]

Cost I would guess, or the end product has no market. That's a huge problem with recycling in general, it's often cheaper to extract new instead of reclaim old. Vast majority of street recycling in the USA is dumped. The market was China for years, but they stopped buying it.

[@lo2740]

"new composite circuit boards" i do not think separating the glass fibers from the prepreg resin of PCB is making much sense economically. Besides, only the glass fibers could be recycled, if melted again, the cured prepreg resins certainly cannot be recycled.

[@robsonez]

There is no way young mate is making a living in Aus with ewaste. Its a hobby.

[@TheKanguru]

outlaw money , figure out a new system that does not create poverty on one end and corruption on the other, problem solved.

[@davechristian7543]

R u sure this doco wasnt stolen as iv seen it well over 2 years ago on another YT channel my child

[@Zt3v3]

I'm all for collecting and using natural resources but the free for all extraction of the 19th century is over, all stakeholders need a say in the process.

[@Justone372]

Yeah he wants to get it first. 😂😂😂😂

[@Notrocketscience101]

If they made 9 billion phones with the metal, they are not rare!

[@lo2740]

"mica is used to prevent your smartphone from overheating", mmh, i do not see how, and i doubt mica is used much in smartphones actually.

[@jeremiahalguire8231]

Well , considering you don't make them , I guess it's okay that you don't understand it. But if you wanted to learn......could always do some , ya know , actual RESEARCH instead of just saying that it sounds too complicated for you to bother learning.

[@mikeguitar9769]

I don’t see how either. More like low- loss capacitors for better signal/noise ratio.

[@JT-cl2ps]

7:34 Nice to see Julian Assange making the most of his freedom!

[@mugglescakesniffer3943]

It's so great to see a large wealthy country tea bag a poor group or population. Shows their true nature.

[@pas7680]

they're killing themselves for chump change. They should be mining and refining the materials in country instead of exporting it for a fraction of it's value.

[@usranger175]

They’re doing the Lords work

[@fernandoneugart]

sure but labor is expensive in america thanks to inflation and unionizing

[@TheSnoeedog]

your comment doesn't make sense: what are they exporting? The things that they *SHOULD* but presumably *AREN'T* mining and refining in country? I'd love some clarity

[@TheSnoeedog]

@@fernandoneugart certainly has nothing to do with safety legislation, health care, insurance, environmental mitigation strategies (or absence thereof)......you're right, it's all the fault of the dems. *IMBECILE*

[@spencers4121]

Many of these countries are exploited by inside and outside sources. Many countries ideals of freedom and fairness, stop short of their borders. And will happily exploited other people abroad.

[@AlaTest-u9d]

Now I understand why an avocado is so healthy.

[@nickmcgookin247]

We can make stuff by just adding a eltron to anything

[@jakebest3833]

EXACTLY!!!

[@seanarmstrong7767]

Huh??? Are you talking about growing gold and silver in a lab?

[@scottykonovalov4518]

Yeah it's crazy what we could do

[@piepiedog1]

If you're referring to producing these materials synthetically, it is not really that simple. First of all, what separates all elements from one another is not electrons but protons (for example, what separates elemental silver from elemental gold is that the silver consists of 47 protons while the gold consists of 79 protons). And unfortunately, it is not simple or generally practical to just stick protons together. Protons are positively charged, and therefore repel one another unless a high enough amount of energy is applied for the strong nuclear force to overcome the electromagnetic force that would otherwise keep them apart. This energy is so high, that for many atoms the only place with enough energy to produce them in high numbers is in the core of stars. For a lot of atoms, even this isn't enough and the energy required can only be found in supernovae. And even then, you have to consider the stability of the atom, which is when neutrons and electrons begin to matter. For example, a Uranium atom with 143 neutrons will decay faster and is more easily broken apart than a Uranium atom with 146 neutrons. And then some materials mined are desired not for the element but for molecular/crystalline structure. For instance, the graphite mined in this video is just carbon, but it exists in a desirable crystalline form. In this case, you'd need the elements AND the desired structure they form. This isn't to say synthesizing these things is not possible (for some materials, we are already doing it), but it may be so difficult/impractical/expensive that it isn't worth it. Hopefully materials science will continue to advance to the point where one day we don't need to mine much of anything, but for now we should strive to make mining safer, reduce our dependence on the materials themselves, recycle materials, etc.

[@oneshothunter9877]

Hydrogen Peroxide is water with one Xtra oxygen atom.

[@tubewearwolf]

Australia checking out the best reality show on earth!

[@forestgreen916]

i used to take a bath in a bucket too . . .

[@Ghettodachoppa87-kf6ml]

They do this in Africa as well, and more places.

[@MrNobodyAttn]

27:24 that just makes it worse

[@TheOMT]

Seriously? Not $69,420? So close!

[@Lietuva47]

Varis, auksas, sidabras gali būti padengtas specialiu laku kaip izoliacija tarp laidų ir nuo oksidacijos ir taip daroma su vario laidais iš mikroschemų kad atrodytu kaip auksas, be to ten gali būti ir sidabras ir jis daug pigesnis nei auksas, jei ten būtu naudojamas auksas tada pasaulis senai pritrūktu aukso .

[@HamsterXFiles]

JerryRigEverything stuff.

[@CulturedWhiteBoy]

Imagine not being able to afford a hammer.

[@Peace786.]

&9trillion cameras

[@allxtend4005]

i want to see with ther vacum tubes to create a hole that deep and fast that it can colapse, there is not 90% of sand only on the bottom of the ocean so it makes no sense at all. Why he stoped fishing, because there are no fishes anymore at this place when they do work like that.

[@mabeSc]

4:35 A pair of gloves is like 50 rupees (around 60 cents) - stop lying.

[@edringweeko3419]

This how companies making billions care about the locals that how the minerals around the globe

[@_pant0m]

when money talks

[@ZXTXM]

nothing for the plastic on the flip phones

[@kirillkhizhnyak3749]

scrapper joe

[@jreese8284]

The natives were mining silver and gold for their own indigenous kings long before the Spaniards came; let's not forget that.

[@MrE1963t]

If anyone thinks large corporations care about anything other than profits you live in a fantasy.

[@akzariviolent6097]

When they say Green Energy Decarbonize 😂😂😂

[@songofseikilos8659]

what can we do about other countries to not make a huge global impact with toxic and carbon emissions ?

[@robertlee6338]

People who talk about about banning child labour is missing the point. These kids are forced to work, because the family is poor, and the family cant afford to send the kids to school. Ask any parent of child miner and everyone of them will say, they prefer/wish their kids go to school for education.

[@veronicalogotheti1162]

So hay oxigeno hay agua

[@songofseikilos8659]

let's face it there is nothing that's going to stop any kind of pollution it will always exist period no matter how or why your idealistic or your opinions may be, and it will always cause someone harm to prevent it

[@Qasibr]

Often when natural resources are found in 1st world countries, they find non-toxic and health stealing ways of extracting resources. Places like India can’t just agree to always remain undeveloped and not use natural resources. What is needed is to use labour friendly ways of extracting them.

[@Katrina-mx2sf]

Glad e-waste is being properly recycled. Never thought this new electronic age would be so polluting and wasteful. And destructive.

[@senpai9]

these guys need knowledge for better life.

[@kylelangdon169]

And yet the wife is sitting around playing games on her smart phone all day... wow dude. get played.

[@mitzukic1071]

only phones? how about e-cars....

[@gerryboudreaultboudreault2608]

There must be far better methods of recycling rare minerals!? How many devices do not get recycled? I do not even throw out dry-cell batteries..

[@loveisalliam]

You go and work in Mac do ……………

[@joshgee8714]

My fanny hurts

[@robertlivingston5175]

No offense, but Luciano looks like an addict.

[@user-ik8fl2xr5t]

May Allah send this to our wives

[@cloudvyy]

Me as Indonesian people are sad to see this, our gov cannot bring prosperity to own people as the result sure ppl din't have choice to mine Illegal even thats very dangerous if they din't mine they won't eat :(

[@ShippingRefund]

isn't there only 8 billion people on earth?

[@oneshothunter9877]

Around.... And counting. Soon, very soon 9 billions.

[@Ghettodachoppa87-kf6ml]

People who collect, should at least invest in some protection. Is it not possible to save for gloves?

[@Hexen6985]

Theses people are being ripped off

[@AJShiningThreads]

Eeeeeeeee! Jason FROM MML

[@stigstanbridge2741]

..and l suppose in 30 years time when there is real out rage it'll all be my fault