How 6 Million Pounds Of Electronic Waste Gets Recycled A Month | Big Business

[@Taooflu]

I’m so glad places like this exist, there’s a glimmer of hope.

[@insectbite1714]

Not with what Apple is doing with their chargers.

[@EZexlax]

worked in a precious metal refinery and we had these machines to break down phone and tables etc.... these place are hazardous for workers but provide a invaluable service. we took in products from all electronics manufacturers including apple.

[@patrickgrady7505]

@@insectbite1714 well Apple is ran by Commies so no surprise there.

[@mistermood4164]

@@patrickgrady7505 yes the most profitable company in the world is communists lol

[@randybobandy9828]

No there isn't.

[@excitedbox5705]

In the future we will be mining landfills because the metals concentration is higher than in ore.

[@baljeetwilliams6884]

Underrated comment

[@Founderschannel123]

Yeah better way to save the earth

[@SevenHunnid]

I quit my job recently because I make more money by smoking weed on my KZbin channel 😂💨

[@2hotflavored666]

@@SevenHunnid Wow, your job's pay must've sucked.

[@christopherclink6931]

@@SevenHunnid all 15k views combined makes you that much money?

[@JerryRigEverything]

This was cool to watch.

[@prajeeshprakash9092]

Hey Zack

[@snapii9816]

indeed

[@dvnd3e]

yes

[@toxicityuser]

hi

[@dikshantsharma5925]

Scratches at level 6 with deeper grooves at level 7

[@MedEighty]

The company that sets up a factory to manufacture anything must also be required to set up another factory, at the same time, to recycle what it manufactures. It's ridiculous that companies are allowed to manufacture as much (soon-to-be) waste as they like and for others to have to keep up with them to try to undo their damage.

[@TheFlyingZulu]

That's a damn good idea... 100% recycle requirement for any manufacturing company. Apple, Samsung, IBM, car manufacturing companies.

[@Aatell764]

Itd be nice but nobodies going to have the money to start new businesses unless they are already rich. So big companies will have even more power and less competition insuring they will forever be large and powerful. Then the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, which happens anyways.

[@MedEighty]

@@Aatell764 Most smaller companies assemble their products from parts they have sourced from other companies. Their actions, with regard to recycling their products, would be limited to disassembling the products to ship the parts back to their respective original manufacturers for further recycling. They always also have the option of out-sourcing such activities.

[@oldstudbuck3583]

@@Aatell764 I hope you haven’t reproduced. You are the type of voter liberal politicians pander too. Scared, vaccinated, masked, woke, angry, offended, aggrieved. It’s probably too late for red pill.

[@Aatell764]

@@oldstudbuck3583 Lol the fact that I'm the exact opposite, is what I find hilarious. Buddy you might just be talking about yourself. All I said was it would give more power to the already powerful companies that rule the world, but if you disagree with that then you are the most blue pilled ass kissing knee bowing ass mother lover around. Your okay with businesses running your life? And you are trying to act manly while kissing your overlords ass? Get the hell outta here buddy.

[@Pulseczar1]

Thank you to the recyclers out there for being one of the few to care about our home and our fellow inhabitants. This made me feel so good to watch it, even though most e-waste isn't currently recycled and even though smartphone makers seem insistent upon 2-year planned obsolescence (by making phones whose batteries aren't easy to change and by not providing software updates longer). It's good to be reminded that I'm not the only person in the world that cares about this.

[@TheBloodyHarvest]

I can safely guarantee you bud that as much as I admire your view on things, these companies do not do this out of kindness, profit is their main and biggest focus by a long shot. They even mentioned it in this video on how much money is involved in this.

[@Pulseczar1]

@@TheBloodyHarvest That's a very cynical view of the world. It's not true that people only do things for profit. Otherwise, people would never give away money expecting nothing in return. But people do just that all the time. There is profit involved in recycling because no one wants to spend their life's savings on it because they'll need that money later to live on. Can't fault someone for wanting pay for what they do. That's not a bad thing -- to be paid for your work. It's fair. One thing for another. You act like any time someone makes money it's bad. But it's good. To give nothing to someone in return for their services or goods is bad; it's basically stealing, unless the person chooses to give it away for free. But no one is expected to give away everything, or even anything. Altruism is optional.

[@TheBloodyHarvest]

@@Pulseczar1 You're talking as if this company is an individual. Companies exist for monetary purposes otherwise it'd be called a charity. or a non profit organization. To give you an example, no company ever gives money out for nothing, they do it for good publicity which also brings in more money than they gave. I think you might need a reality check on how the business world works instead of believing in the good of these billion dollar companies.

[@Pulseczar1]

@@TheBloodyHarvest Sometimes a company is composed of one person. Sometimes it's composed of a lot of people, but one person at the top that has the final say on everything. Sometimes companies are composed of several people at the top that have final say. It doesn't matter. You can be a company that makes a profit and still be doing good for the world. You act like those two things are mutually exclusive, like anytime money is exchanged, evil is going on. And to say that no one/company ever gives away money or other things or services for free without expecting things in return is just false. There is also nothing wrong with wanting a good public image. That is a healthy thing to care about how you are perceived, to some degree. Oftentimes, the good things people do come back to them. That is true. That is a good thing. Good should come back to those that do good. It also serves as a motivation for doing good things.

[@morkovija]

Right to repair would be one way you can motivate manufacturers to include ways to keep devices in circulation longer than 2 year warranty duration

[@rollozucco209]

is also responsibility of the Designer > and the manufacturer.

[@alicethegrinsecatz1611]

The EU has a new law since this year which force companies to sell replacements and increase the update support as part of the customers rights. They also plan to force companies to use the USB-C with PD 3.0 as charging port, to reduce the need of cables with different connectors and make it easier to use fast charging with different devices on the same charger. Only the full right to repair is something, what the EU talks about but don't make because of the pressure of Big Tech. I mean, Apple plans a lawsuit against the EU and criticise the EU for the new ports requirement, even while the industry got 9 years to create an own industrial norm.

[@johnarnold893]

Buy a Framework laptop, they are modular and repairable.

[@sinephase]

yeah but Apple's going green by using paper protective films instead of plastic LOL

[@udalix]

@FlyingMonkies325 Lul "we will all be connected to internet satellite grid"... you mean star link? That internet meant for remote locations, the internet that's speed is dwarfed by a standard landline internet? K.

[@anonykip]

Planned obsolescence should be illegal. That is the only reason we have so much electronic waste.

[@heshwar6243]

Our world moved from FEUDAL dictatorship to Capiraist Corporate Dictatorship, your agenda (hope for future generations) can only happen if we, people (democracy) put pressure on government, but will that happen?

[@doctorthee]

Not the only reason, consumerism in general has gotten soo extreme

[@JamesRSteffen]

Its really bad. Everything now a days has an end date... Cars, Electronics, appliances..... Example, Cars that the manufacture hasn't changed a thing about the car (some motor, same electronics, ect.) change things ever so slightly that the previous year part doesn't fit. Round the edges a little more, make a change that wasn't important at all just so they have to sell you the newer part.

[@anonykip]

@@heshwar6243 the pockets of corporations are way too deep unfortunately.

[@anonykip]

@@doctorthee you're right, but planned obsolescence has got to be on top of the list.

[@dylanchng4390]

printers ewaste can be drastically decreased if monopoly on ink jet did not exist.

[@ef3675]

To be fair, nothing is stopping you or anyone else from buying refillable cartridges. People are lazy and manufacturers exploits that.

[@doctorthee]

@@ef3675 actually, most printers reject non standard cartridges. Fun fact they also reject copying currency bills!

[@ef3675]

@@doctorthee Most printers also have a "shut up and print anyway" mode, however more often than not it's conveniently hidden. My Canon MX410 behave as such.

[@am.Shub2770]

Buy ink tank printers. It's a one time investment, very helpful in the long run.

[@spdzodzo]

printers ewaste can be drastically decreased without the need of physical paper but using some eink epaper, something like is used in kindle but flexible and thin

[@wparo]

Why not send electronics back to the manufacturer at the end of it's life. They made it so they know exactly how to disassemble it and re use it. Should be an end to e-waste.

[@slovajleclerc9093]

Before they sell they need to demonstrate how to disassemble and recycling it and only after that they get to sell their stuff

[@ThomasABC]

Because they dont give a damn - they are actually more interested in making it harder to repair (take apart) the items that they are making - because that means they can sell more new items :/ Only way to do this is by legislation and forcing companies to accept the consumers right to repair.

[@mahaniyama]

Exctly this is where laws come in, politics can help us solve this issue

[@Gigasimo456]

The point is that electronics are hard to disassemble... Anyone can disassemble them, it's just hard and time consuming.

[@mahaniyama]

@@Gigasimo456 For real. But separating trash and recycling it is also time consuming but it still needs to be done, Better change it at the source aka make laws for companies to design products that are repairable / recycleable

[@kittywabbit1260]

“I don’t know if I have access.. oh I do nehehehe” - the lady that literally runs the place

[@tianmu5507]

exactly, this might be a bad sign

[@yourlocalhuman3526]

relax it's not a big deal. This is coming from someone who regulates staff access in a big finance company

[@EatMyShortsAU]

Usually if there are internal security measures like that access is usually limited to a select few people who NEEDS to have access. It is not based on how senior you are.

[@yourlocalhuman3526]

@@EatMyShortsAU thank you someone who actually knows what they're talking about

[@MicroageHD]

@@tianmu5507 Being the boss of a company doesn't neccessarily mean that you have access to everything.

[@ujjwalpathak5049]

And companies like apple say they care about the environment while all they care about is money.

[@batman_2004]

Haha company caring about environment?

[@Slavicplayer251]

@@batman_2004 they only do it to make more money example is recycled plastic bottles recycled plastic cost about 3 cents more per kilo than new plastic per kilo but more people will buy it of they think it’s better for the environment

[@Andytheevien]

@@batman_2004 They exist not so much in technology (Fairphone, Europe. It's the worlds first modular smart phone) but in the beauty and cosmetic industry it's growing. Ethique cosmetics uses no plastic in its packaging or shipping and now makes concentrates where you add boiling water and you have shampoo, general cleaner, lotion and conditioner along side their already large line of solid products.

[@09NXN06]

Corporations are the main polluters of this planet!

[@bbvv2967]

if they care, then switch the dang cables to fabric

[@ChazzyChazzGaming]

Imagine throw away your hard drive and buy a new one on ebay, then you found out that is your old hdd

[@joeybaseball7352]

Imagine thinking you are creative by starting a comment with imagine.

[@Doctor.Dentista]

People who throw away good hard drives will just buy a whole new machine, not parts

[@chewy7062]

@@joeybaseball7352 imagine having blm as ur pfp

[@covidmakesmoney866]

@@joeybaseball7352 no one respect you, almost killing asian in your sight.

[@nukedukem6]

@@covidmakesmoney866 huh?

[@sutats]

Sally is our big shredder, Ginger is our metal finder. "Heidi is German" WTF

[@gkindustrialmachine1]

I guarantee women didn't build the factory.... Only men can build such things. I would hate to work there with the pro women attitude.

[@sachinsoni1599]

They r trying to confuse people into thinking that women build these machine..dats pathetic..

[@MCRuCr]

My interpretation is that Heidi was built by a german company.. Their pro-women attitude is ridiculous, machines (especially weapons) have been given female names for decades, such that operators (men) treat them well.

[@gkindustrialmachine1]

@@MCRuCr that makes a sense "operators (men) treat them well."

[@samuelestrada1476]

Heidi was designed in Germany. I have been inside that facility about 5 times.

[@danlam7788]

We need more companies like this to make the world better.

[@jimmyjudd7732]

I recently started working here and it's actually a lot of fun. A lot of security and a lot of good people

[@jckahearn]

Nokia: *laughs in immortality*

[@itgamingke]

Lol

[@BatmanSwiss]

😂😂😂

[@donnash5813]

I have an old one in my glove box for emergencies. I check it every 6 months. Always has charge on it.

[@Love-jf7rs]

What makes them so enduring?

[@iroblix6199]

@@Love-jf7rs thats the secret…. but seriously, nokia just built them really, really well. They where first made to be durable (thats what i remember).

[@yalamandarao6327]

These companies are really needed in all the countries... Especially in Asian and African countries where most of the e waste goes to land fill.

[@mauric6943]

The US needs this just as bad if not more. You may have missed the graphic that showed 75% of e-waste in the USA also goes to landfills. As one of the largest producers/consumers of electronics we should also be one of the largest repurposers(not a word)

[@zcalvin80]

They are just do the shredding job, it’s the most easy part, there are a long way to go to recycle them. And the toxic job, of course goes to Asian and other poor countries. People there cost their healthy to make cents.

[@hoangnguyendinh291]

The problem with the countries is that they could not have a working system for categorizing waste.

[@macrick]

Ignorant. All the E waste from the WEST are MOSTLY shipped to Asia or Africa for disposal/recycled. Your labour cost are too expensive to cover every aspect of recycling.

[@outofthebox9699]

Asia isn't a junk yard, it earns more than the western world just visit it.

[@camiloguzman1801]

This kind of industries could be used on rust belt states on the US to generate some good manufacturate jobs.

[@fether835]

this could work if there are people who would start and finance business like these in those areas

[@captainkeyboard1007]

I hope there will be more recycling plants throughout America.

[@johncholmes643]

The problem is trucking it there. There is virtually nothing else to haul out of the armpit of America that any other state wants... Gotta have back hauls to make a profit.

[@Parap0n3ra]

@@johncholmes643 Food?

[@johncholmes643]

@@Parap0n3ra Coming from the west, there is no food in the armpit that isn't in the west. Let alone the quality.

[@uthmanbaksh3530]

Seeing old tech getting recycled and eventually made into new tech is satisfying to watch!

[@AceStrife]

But not the old tech that isn't made anymore and is precious to collectors. ie stuff from the 70's-90's

[@creamandcream9331]

I recently started my e-waste transportation company CEWTS and watching this video made me very optimistic about my company's future. Thanks, Business Insider!

[@dsimpson530]

"NICE printers get eaten up and ground up." We all know how "Nice" printers can be.

[@captainkeyboard1007]

Especially laser printers. They are the only I have personally used.

[@bucky13]

I have to fight with my printer 1/4 of the times I print anything with it.. It would give me great joy to see it shredded.

[@lampshade5449]

If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, designed or removed from production 🙌

[@typehere6689]

What you have posited is technically "reduction".

[@jacksonkarlson234]

Let’s remove you from production, dosnt look like your helping at all

[@warped_rider]

@Jayo Delaware individuals can't make nearly enough of an impact to solve the problem, we need to cut it off at the source.

[@warped_rider]

@Jayo Delaware You will NEVER get a boycott big enough to make Apple stop hiring out slave labor, sorry, it's out of our hands.

[@asjadazeez]

And then we have apple that doesn't allow third party repair or Apple repair for that matter.

[@mikejones8808]

tesla as well. found a loophole in the right to repair act so they make it completely impossible for you to rebuild your car so the totaled or damaged ones are trash

[@insectbite1714]

@@mikejones8808 no, Tesla makes decisions because Elon Musk cares about the enviorment. Recently Tesla made a desision that reduced profits but also reduced pollution. This is why we should buy Tesla.

[@insectbite1714]

@@mikejones8808 repairing cars is dangerous. Tesla knows that people will hate on then if they get injured while trying to repair a Tesla

[@2hotflavored666]

@@insectbite1714 Lmao barely anyone gets injured while repairing cars, and only experienced people actually attempt to repair cars. "repairing cars is dangerous" is the weakest excuse I've seen from an Elon fanboy. 😂

[@kennyrees2114]

@@2hotflavored666 I agree to some extent, but when you start fiddling around with the batteries then it does become quite dangerous. Those batteries have enough energy in them to carry a 2500 kg car for hundreds of kilometres. Have you ever seen a Samsung battery catching fire? Imagine what happens when you punch a screwdriver through a Tesla battery...

[@jamespn]

There ought to be a law if someone sells electronics or any appliances for that matter. It’s up to them to take them back for recycling, collect a fee upfront and pay it back as a bounty for someone to return it and keep them out of landfills.

[@thelionryder5492]

As someone who actually works in an E-waste place similar to this I can say at all places are like this. But I promise you little gets actually recycled. Metal gets melted down, computer boards get melted down for gold and plastic goes out to some factories in Asia to get melted down for power. Nothing much gets recycled. Oh and forget batteries, there’s no way to properly dispose of them besides jam packing them inside or underground. Both massive fire hazards,

[@V5mGpYp]

this is such an awesome video and I sincerely hope this company can expand all over the USA and the rest of the world to help save our planet, our people and our money. The manufacturers need to work to help companies like these to operate more efficiently and more economically. The days of throwing things out are over.

[@NazriB]

Lies again? RP Education

[@oldlefty1267]

"Female dominant machines". Machinery is almost always referred to as her or she.

[@MCRuCr]

machines have been given female names for centuries, only now people frame it as a "pro-feminist" thing. Hilarious

[@Norm475]

All machines will eventually give you problems, hence the reference to machines as being female.

[@dheeraj_one]

Because they are noisy.

[@jed-henrywitkowski6470]

@@Norm475 And make us wonder if we made a solid choice, by getting her!

[@raceris7309]

I thought mainly ships were given feminine names

[@camiloguzman1801]

I had to congratulate and wish my best to the team that took so many effort to create a so good content. And with that quality.

[@cakyle1982]

Being in IT myself, this was scary as $hit to watch. Banking institutions sending their old hard drives to be repurposed. LOL! just counting on a company wiping a drive the right way and reselling it to be reused on ebay is the absolute scariest thing I could imagine. Counting on some so called company to "get rid of information" and sell it on ebay. Wow. There's no such thing as a refurbished clean hard drive. After its life the only way to recycle a hard drive is to burn it, drill it, and put a few shot gun shells threw it. There is no such thing as a safely refurbished hard drive. PERIOD!

[@plz1277]

If you’re a corporation in America you are excused from any liability or guilt, even when you admit to wrong, just by paying a fee (if that), w the expectation that you aren’t really admitting guilt.

[@captainkeyboard1007]

Since some leading companies are located overseas, I am pleased to know that Sims Lifecycle Services is located in the United States of America.

[@prerecordedresponse9884]

"We can reuse and resell these parts." *slaps an exposed ram module and ssd on the counter*

[@YurinovichDornburg]

lol where

[@prerecordedresponse9884]

@@YurinovichDornburg 2:40 :p

[@vasopel]

he didn't "slap" them enough to break them. those are ok parts.

[@prerecordedresponse9884]

Eh, he could have been more gentle with them. Especially considering these parts are used and you're on camera. I've handled brand new parts more gentle than that and they've been damaged.

[@vasopel]

@@prerecordedresponse9884 maybe he doesn't like to be filmed and he is pissed :-) well yes, sometimes things break even if you're gentle with them, shit happens, but if it happens to you once..then the next time it will happen is in about 3 years time,in those 3 years you've kept handling them gently and you have no idea why it happened again..what do you do from then on? you go rough on them! so why not do it all the time? :-)

[@wowJhil]

The cost for society and nature is as always not paid by the manufactorers!

[@Love-jf7rs]

Manufacturers make the specifications from the designs of the company contracting them. We also have to go to the level of Research & Development, having scientists and engineers come up with new designs for the gadgets. Learn from God: go to the molecular level and make things biodegradable! This is the future, and God will be happy about better environmental stewarding!

[@tommc49]

That process is so labor and machine intensive it's hard to believe it's profitable. Surely, it must be, or they wouldn't be doing it. I'd really like to see the balance sheet.

[@1pcfred]

I am having my doubts that business is running without huge subsidies to keep it financially afloat. Maybe it's really a fentanyl lab in disguise? They're not breaking up electronics they're breaking bad!

[@torchandhammer]

@@1pcfred Look up the price of palladium and get back to me.

[@1pcfred]

@@torchandhammer how much palladium do you think you're going to get out of e-waste?

[@torchandhammer]

@@1pcfred It's in all the little ceramic capacitors that are everywhere on circuit boards. There's also gold, silver, copper, nickel, lead, brass, stainless steel, steel. It's all well worth recovering.

[@1pcfred]

@@torchandhammer well then you sit there with your torch and your hammer and you recover it then. You'll be on Easy St. in no time! Until you stop and think how they can afford to put those capacitors all over circuit boards. It's because when they're new they only cost a fraction of a cent to buy. So there can't be much in them that's particularly valuable. The people making the parts certainly are not operating at a loss. They're making money too. So if they're selling the part for a fraction of a cent imagine how cheap it is for them to make it. There's not much there in material costs. There can't be. With our present technology it is not worth recovering. Now if we had Star Trek replicators then we'd be getting somewhere. They could disassemble junk on the atomic level. But we can't do that. We basically just have torches and hammers today.

[@originalunoriginal4055]

The founder of this recycling center should be extremely proud of their vision. A credit to this planet!

[@89ksantoso]

I was just thinking about this idea.. turns out it already came true.. amazing video from insider! Thank you! It helped me finding new ideas

[@Samurai-pe6rv]

Same bro

[@bruh321xyz4]

me too.

[@migglemaggle9500]

Thumbs up for the workers, and the genius who made this happen.

[@cjhification]

When I was looking in to this about 12 years ago with work, I went over to somewhere in Essex and saw very similar processes, with huge shredders for the hard drives (and everything else, but hard drives are by far the hardest bit of the computer) apparently they had designed the wipe system for the hard drives working with GCHQ, had to do 7 sequential writes, and 7 random writes I think, then test for any data remnants, if it passed, could be sold, if failed went to shredder and so were allowed to wipe government department disks for official, and official - sensitive data, and resell them (think it was slightly different security classification system at the time). They also did revenue sharing with the clients.

[@gfresh353]

Very cool to understand this process. We take much for granted in our technologically driven society.

[@EinfachFredhaftGaming]

Hurts my heart seeing them put fully assembeled server racks on the shredder conveyor

[@gamehacker2801]

Damn these series are gold

[@baljeetwilliams6884]

Recycled

[@Founderschannel123]

@@baljeetwilliams6884 its best if they get more of it in landfilleds since old computer parts or phone parts can be recycled to make new computers or phones and better way to save the enviroment

[@SevenHunnid]

My job is to smoke weed on my KZbin channel 😳

[@parsarahimi71]

Well, I hope manufacturers produce some kind of open format for products on how to disassemble them, this way lots of labor intensive work can be automated ...

[@davidtangitau3771]

Always someone trying to get rid of decent paying employment 😂😭☠️

[@benis4958]

Always tryna take away jobs

[@Love-jf7rs]

Just automate the dangerous-hazardous parts of the work then. Win-Win! :)

[@GamerBoy705_yt]

@@pascalfrancisco8795 idc

[@kejigamer]

Stop trying to steal our jobs!!!

[@picobyte]

Nice to see the buisiness I started in is doing so great 👍 Engineering trash is way underestimated.

[@Ayanechan16]

Amazing I hope other people will learn. It is amazing to hear that someone recycle electronic waste

[@CarolineMcNutt]

I really loved learning about Jim and Ingrid's insights. They know what's up.

[@MrWessiide]

She was named after the German engineer who built her. HE had a ginger beard. 😂

[@sachinsoni1599]

How wokeness can be based on stupidy..

[@CoolcatsSk8]

Jonathan F Nobodys saying a female cant be named after a male you dolt, we’re just pointing out how erroneous it is for those women to perceive the machines names as “female dominant machinery” because of the machines name. Basically all machines were invented by a European man anyone with a brain knows that & those same men have been naming their creations with mostly feminine names because we like our ladies & we like our names. Of course not all names are feminine like “Ginger” yet they still joke of it being female dominant. Silly joke but just a joke nonetheless. Dont diagnose people with issues when you dont completely understand the topic.

[@nookied3735]

The feminism in this video is definitely cringe

[@ESPcrb]

@@nookied3735 is that really what we got out of this video?

[@tubester4567]

@@ESPcrb When its pointless and gratuitous yes.....

[@spotoncam3640]

I am feeling so good after watching this vdo 🙏 I wish every country has a recycling unit especially developed ones who usually dump their waste to landfills 👍

[@manavmishra9071]

Ingrid please setup a recycling factory in India, we really need it

[@Arun_hog]

There's no use in india cause the cost of recycling will by far exceed the resale value

[@Subhrajyoti]

true man

[@arpanmandal7244]

Already have in dharabi

[@jvl3215]

@The plan In thirty years you guys from the West will be working as janitors in the East.

[@wuuduu609]

i think, theres a lot of rich people in india, able to build factories like this

[@EnronnSierra]

My way of contributing is by keeping my personal electronics longer and usually keep the ones that are obselete. I am still using my iPhone X, Surface Pro 3 and MacBook Pro from 2015. Even when Apple and Microsoft decides they are no longer supported, I will keep them as vintage products. Innovation has plateaued anyway, getting the latest iPhone is not life changing anymore.

[@verumignis4778]

I think theres things consumers can do aswell, I repurpose old PCs as servers, Ive got a NAS thats based on a 15 year old PC, a game server thats an old mini PC and another PC that a company was getting rid of is also a game server.

[@Odia_bhaina]

Damn wr want these everywhere. Produces more jobs and money than sending to landfill too.

[@Alphadan]

You can re-use RAM memory, processors and everything else.... unless they are soldered to the motherboard like most of recent Apple products. So much for a "green" company.

[@werewolfberserker1950]

You noticed that too right? I said the same thing about apple but my friend didn’t believe me. 🤦‍♂️ 🍎

[@1pcfred]

You cannot use old electronics. The stuff is old. That's why it got tossed out. It is obsolete and has been replaced with better tech. That's why they're not still selling original AT PCs in stores today. Because nobody wants them!

[@rotcivvc7531]

@@1pcfred That has nothing to do with what i said. Earlier in the days, if you wanted to slightly tweak an apple product, you could replace the RAM or the HDD with an SSD. Everything is soldered onto the motherboard nowadays, so if you want to tweak anything, you're forced to either replace the whole computer or wait a few more years until you can afford another one.

[@FowlorTheRooster1990]

@@1pcfred Then why does my computer contain old parts with a couple of new parts then?

[@1pcfred]

@@FowlorTheRooster1990 because you like to throw good money after bad.

[@jamescryptoguru6468]

Interesting video!!! You should try to make videos on Investment...

[@benlionelscott5593]

I wanted to trade crypto but got confused by the fluctuation in price

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Fantastic that some of our "waste" are being recycled. We need more and more of this example.

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She clearly scanned her badge.

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[@jameliaraymond184]

Great work, excited to see this in my home country. Excellent.

[@tomiadventures]

good video, but im left with so many questions. i'll ask the last one that came to mind: manufacture electronics without WHICH toxins? nearly all of it can be considered a toxin depending on how it's handled at end of life, even aluminum (which most ppl have no idea). I want to start my own ewaste recovery company one day - so far im a party of one in a small garage and do/did as a hobby. my favourite part is how Al is sep. from pcb's, from plastic, based on weight & ferrous composition combined, that's pretty smart.

[@nobojerry]

GLAD WE GOT OUR HANDS ON SOME OF THESE & ENJOYING WATCHING KZbin ON IT

[@singhgurpreet9466]

Hats off to all workers❤️🙏🏼

[@papajohnsuk5965]

I wish I could have one like this near me, some allow you to browse what they've got and pick some out for bargains, shame the rest of it mostly goes to landfill

[@araigumakiruno]

Yeah I wish!

[@DR-rt7hh]

I’m curious to know how to get started in a business like this?

[@noir2601]

Lots and lots of money

[@baljeetwilliams6884]

@@noir2601 and luck

[@Sorcerers_Apprentice]

You could probably become a disassembler and work the line with forklift certification. For the reuse/refurbishment area, basic knowledge in electronics and computer hardware. To run the facility, a Master's in electronic engineering, project management experience and lots of startup capital to invest in the space, technology and training personnel.

[@baljeetwilliams6884]

Unfortunately companies use less and less amount of precious metals when manufacturing these days... So first do a proper research before even starting on a business like this.

[@AbdulAziz4CaNaDa]

I was thinking about the same thing 😊

[@henryc6867]

Ii's all a big understatement. Thank you so much to the workers for their honorable work.

[@DavianProspere-qr1nl]

Very good video and thank you!

[@kudalaut.official]

this is why I dont throw away my old stuffs, I sold it to someone else for being re-use or they got recycled like in this video 😇

[@Livetoeat171]

What recycling company do you take it to? Our recycling trucks won't pick electronics up like that.

[@obbsheistone7879]

I used to be part of the StRUT (students to recycle used technology) and we used to process technology donated to the school to make computer labs and repair/reuse what we could. What we couldn't do we would take pieces of tech apart and put it on the pallets you see in the video that they are unloading. Back then it didn't seem like much of an issue when we only had CPU's that ran at 400mhz, and upgrading your computer was only really needed every 5 years or so...and lack of cell phones. Now though it has definitely became a major issue. One thing to note your electronic recycle at your landfill will probably just incinerate it instead and cause more pollution. Not all landfills process e-waste.

[@308tony]

Companies in general should have a recycle plan for their products that is mandatory for every country. Makes recycling easier.

[@1pcfred]

They do have a recycling plan, They send their trash to a place like this.

[@sims717]

I was a manager and lab tech,at an high end fertilizer plant.I named our 1500 gal stainless mixing/heating tanks.Jodie,Sophie,and big Bertha,was a few.

[@dfgatorfan]

We need to hold companies accountable for the full life cycles of their products. They should be paying recyclers to take in their e-waste across the board. Putting the onus on the consumer and society as a whole is madness.

[@astrophysics6326]

This is so cool. It's good business. It saves the environment. It helps technology develop faster without the fear of creating too much waste. And the coolest thing, most of the workforce are women!

[@revolutionaryprepper4076]

This is actually the best idea I've heard of yet. Carefully remove the old parts of the computer, that you can reuse and then recycle what you can't re-purpose. That makes a lot of sense. A refurbished computer can work just as well or better sometimes, that a new computer. 17% of all electronics get recycled. That's good to know.

[@1pcfred]

What are you going to use an old 500 GB IDE HDD for today? A paperweight?

[@stockholmkyiv]

@@1pcfred Recycle it?...

[@1pcfred]

@@stockholmkyiv not everything can be efficiently and economically recycled. How much effort would it take to accumulate enough HDDs in one place to make it viable? You cannot learn how to swim in ankle deep water. Sometimes you have to go all in. That is the problem we face in our waste stream management today. We haven't brought up to a level where it is worthwhile.

[@stockholmkyiv]

@@1pcfred Quite alot of it can be recycled or somtimes re-purposed though

[@1pcfred]

@@stockholmkyiv if it was any good no one would be throwing it away. Even if it was the random nature of the blend makes it not worthwhile to sort through. There's nothing you can do with mismatched parts. There's no practical way to even know what you have in many cases. How much electronics have you personally recycled? One of us here actually has. I happen to know it is me too.

[@xanscobe]

Hope NA, asia, etc are improving their recyling and doing less Landfills. good video :)

[@robert9595]

Those are continents mate.

[@brendatenorio5721]

So good to know this company is in business!

[@davidsirett5560]

i know someone who repairs washing machines he said manufacturers do not want you to be able to repair stuff if it goes wrong. he told me that some manufacturers will put heat sensitive circuitry right above a heat source thus ensuring that the item will eventually fail.

[@landi76]

it would be better to make electricial goods in better quality, longer lasting and than we don´t need to throw them away every 2-3 years and recycle it

[@mikejones8808]

technology is ever advancing, so its extremely hard to achieve that goal rn

[@captainkeyboard1007]

That is just what I have feel and have been hoping.

[@captainkeyboard1007]

@@mikejones8808 Computer technology has been advancing like Microsoft Office.

[@seasong7655]

This business is a goldmine. Especially now during the chip shortage!

[@seasong7655]

@Abdul Soleh The low supply makes the chips go up in price, and this company is recycling chips, which means they make more profit.

[@adamrhoads1521]

@@seasong7655 it is really hard though to refurbish silicon. That’s because silicon wafers that make CPUs and GPUs have to basically be flawless. Also companies are using less silver and gold than 10 years ago because it is more economical. It is a really hard and unforgiving business.

[@adamrhoads1521]

And to add, when there are imperfections in the silicon, companies just put it in cheaper less powerful hardware

[@1pcfred]

Nothing they have is chips anyone wants today.

[@mactavishmods]

It takes 2 minutes to take out RAMs from Mac These guys: a time taking process

[@insectbite1714]

Apple messed with the laws making it illegial to recycle Apple products like that. Also Apple products are purposfuly super weak.

[@dipankarbarooah3392]

This is the most important word done by this people .Truely Fascinating .

[@victorb5]

Great video, props to Sims for taking on a hard-work niche to get their profit. Hopefully the manufacturers put some more effort into recyclable design as it will save them on material sourcing if Sims can process old models and get it back to them for lower prices than the mining companies. Best way to support planned obsolescence is to make the cycle of replacement as closed loop as possible.

[@theprimest]

Who else loves this Big Business series?

[@simonsays7688]

Just an idea: there ought to be a law/certification requiring electronics manufacturers to make devices that are recyclable to a certain percentage (eg. different materials can be easily identified and pulled apart). Also shoutout to UK for standardizing USB-C as the only phone port allowed 👏

[@51hankyspanky7]

That is absolutely terrific! So glad to see this!

[@SollersScrappingandDiving]

I'm an e-waste woman and I love seeing this side of the process!👍

[@kingjames4886]

I see that tray specifically labeled "Ebay HDDs"... I wonder why they would need a tray specifying destination unless they're somehow sorting the drives by some unknown metric? like selling the junk on Ebay and selling the good stuff to their corporate clients?

[@MrDemiraca]

Dents and scratches usually.

[@PURENT]

Probably just for organization. All of these are sold as refurbished drives to basically anyone who wants to buy them, and there's always a risk with buying refurbished goods. They can sell smaller numbers easily on eBay and charge a bit more for each drive, while on wholesale (Alibaba) they can require minimum order quantities and dump as many as possible.

[@aleksandersuur9475]

Corporate clients don't buy refurbished gear, if you count the cost of all the hassle then it's pretty much always more economical to just buy new. Gear is cheap, problem solving is not.

[@PURENT]

@UCom_vZ0sgiB27ZGJIGBm1-Q Organization. Helps you keep track of inventory. Also those server drives are just trays you're supposed to fill with individual hard drives.

[@kingjames4886]

@@PURENT ok, still there has to be a reason for an ebay tray. if it didn't matter they wouldn't have to specify. it doesn't specify that they're SATA drives, or even the size of the drives, just that they're meant to be sold on ebay. it seems logical to ask why I think.

[@leozendo3500]

eBay should charge 2% for used electronics from individual sellers instead of 10. That will make a huge and immediate difference.

[@1pcfred]

Why should they? Ebay is incorporated to make as much money as they can.

[@maxpulido4268]

Only way that will happen is if Ebay gets a tax credit to do so. Tax cut causing them to earn 12% by charging 2 instead of 10%. It would start seeing results in a week.

[@1pcfred]

@@maxpulido4268 old electronics are by and large trash. There's a reason they're being gotten rid of in the first place. That reason is they're obsolete and have been superseded by more modern products. Another reason is electronics fail. Once failed electronics are not always so easily fixed.

[@maxpulido4268]

@@1pcfred Doesn't adress the issue.

[@1pcfred]

@@maxpulido4268 shipping e-waste to Ghana addresses the issue. Muwahahaha!

[@ScareFestTTV]

Cool stuff! Too bad only 9% of plastic actually gets recycled apparently. Another documentary explained it. We need to do better all of us.

[@TheRaptoer]

Depends on the plastic. Most household waste is too contaminated to be useful, the stuff that comes from this process though is clean, no food contamination, no paper contamination.

[@KCECC-ActiveHealthyAgeing]

Good work & idea. 👍 Should have more of these all over the world.

[@kildozer2012]

I've actually spent a good bit of money through this company on refurbished motherboards and CPU's . I can 100% vouch for their quality and customer service. I've only had one part that didn't work and they immediately shipped over another without question, they stand by their terms and they get my full respect

[@kildozer2012]

@BurnSycle They were on ebay but I can't seem to find their page now

[@jonedog2567]

Now that's an operation. Holy smokes lol

[@gteixeira]

Probably most of these devices were in perfect working order. They could just use a formatting or an upgrade.

[@1pcfred]

They're not doing what needs to be done now. I agree with your sentiment but at the same time we have to acknowledge other factors that make disposing of equipment the sound economic move. Time is money.

[@gteixeira]

@@1pcfred Not really. When I was I college I would buy 5 years old laptops that were the lowest end when they were new. Those computers shown above are likely to be on the mid to high end side and someone could easily just format or maybe uograde the RAM to be usable today.

[@1pcfred]

@@gteixeira nothing getting tossed out is brand new. So none of it is high end today. Not even something that may have been high end years ago. Progress is relentless.

[@gteixeira]

@@1pcfred My desktop computer is from 2011. My laptop is from 2013. My smartphone is from 2018. In fact even the laptop from before was an ultra-thin very low performance from 2005 that I bought in 2009 and used through 2015 and I still have it and power on from time to time and it works great. Unless the devices are broken and irreparable, there is a good chance they are still perfectly good for use.

[@1pcfred]

@@gteixeira good for you. Not good in a professional setting though. Professionals do not have time to be working on the devices they need to make a living. They need to just get on with their jobs.

[@supreman303]

So How should we dump electronics like remote cells to not harm the environment?

[@nicolaschu9599]

Don't dump them, send them to a certified recycler.

[@RK-mf9wu]

Governments should ban companies from selling phones every year with newer models. That would reduce e-waste alot.

[@frozenturbo8623]

Or make people reuse their phone as secondary or sell it to someone who knows how to fix phones and resell it

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Hi from Mexico 😀 great vid on how electronics are recycled!!

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[@carlosguerrero6077]

Wonder what's the hourly rate over there for that job

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If they had to have qualifications in the tech field because they're taking apart machines, the wage would probably be pretty good

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As less as possible

[@bane8305]

Minimum wage or maybe 1-2$ dollars above minimum wage

[@bane8305]

Go to school bro trust you dont wanna work there

[@microdubber]

Those printers at 2:12 look brand new - still have the tape that holds things together during shipping. I can only imagine how often new stuff sees the destructor given massive waste in many companies and in the government.

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Thank you BUSINESS INSIDER for giving this valuable information, you and your team really working hard to get contents, and thank you for helping me for my startup and please I request you to make videos on recycling e-waste.

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Secret clients, huh? Sounds like Uncle Sam might be one of their clients.

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Nah

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Its probably HP DELL. etc and schools across the country....