How 6 Million Pounds Of Electronic Waste Gets Recycled A Month

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

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Only 17% of electronic waste is recycled. That’s because devices aren’t designed to be recycled. They’re full of tiny, toxic materials that are hard and expensive to break down. But if extracted safely, those materials could mean big money for e-recyclers like Sims Lifecycle Services. We visit Sims’ Tennessee recycling facility to find out why e-waste is getting harder to deal with.
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How 6 Million Pounds Of Electronic Waste Gets Recycled A Month | Big Business

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@excitedbox5705 3 жыл бұрын

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

@baljeetwilliams6884 3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@samuraiboi2735 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah better way to save the earth

@SevenHunnid 3 жыл бұрын

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

@2hotflavored666 3 жыл бұрын

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

@christopherclink6931 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Taooflu 3 жыл бұрын

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

@insectbite1714 3 жыл бұрын

Not with what Apple is doing with their chargers.

@EZexlax 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@mistermood4164 3 жыл бұрын

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

@randybobandy9828 3 жыл бұрын

No there isn't.

@JerryRigEverything 2 жыл бұрын

This was cool to watch.

@prajeeshprakash9092 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Zack

@snapii9816 2 жыл бұрын

indeed

@dvnd3e 2 жыл бұрын

yes

@toxicityuser 2 жыл бұрын

@dikshantsharma5925 2 жыл бұрын

Scratches at level 6 with deeper grooves at level 7

@kittywabbit1260 3 жыл бұрын

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

@tianmu5507 3 жыл бұрын

exactly, this might be a bad sign

@yourlocalhuman3526 3 жыл бұрын

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

@EatMyShortsAU 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@MicroageHD 2 жыл бұрын

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

@morkovija 3 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

is also responsibility of the Designer > and the manufacturer.

@alicethegrinsecatz1611 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

Buy a Framework laptop, they are modular and repairable.

@sinephase 2 жыл бұрын

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

@udalix 2 жыл бұрын

@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.

@dylanchng4390 3 жыл бұрын

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

@ef3675 3 жыл бұрын

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

@doctorthee 3 жыл бұрын

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

@ef3675 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@spdzodzo 2 жыл бұрын

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

@MedEighty 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Aatell764 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@wparo 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ThomasABC 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@michaelboot 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Gigasimo456 2 жыл бұрын

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

@michaelboot 2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@anonykip 3 жыл бұрын

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

@heshwar6243 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@JamesRSteffen 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@anonykip 3 жыл бұрын

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

@ChazzyChazzGaming 3 жыл бұрын

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

@joeybaseball7352 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Doctor.Dentista 3 жыл бұрын

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

@chewy7062 3 жыл бұрын

@@joeybaseball7352 imagine having blm as ur pfp

@covidmakesmoney866 3 жыл бұрын

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

@nukedukem6 3 жыл бұрын

@@covidmakesmoney866 huh?

@Pulseczar1 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@danlam7788 3 жыл бұрын

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

@dsimpson530 3 жыл бұрын

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

@captainkeyboard1007 3 жыл бұрын

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

@bucky13 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@ujjwalpathak5049 3 жыл бұрын

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

@batman_2004 3 жыл бұрын

Haha company caring about environment?

@Slavicplayer251 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

Corporations are the main polluters of this planet!

@bbvv2967 3 жыл бұрын

if they care, then switch the dang cables to fabric

@jamespn 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@uthmanbaksh3530 2 жыл бұрын

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

@AceStrife 2 ай бұрын

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

@jckahearn 3 жыл бұрын

Nokia: *laughs in immortality*

@itgamingke 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@BatmanSwiss 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@donnash5813 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Love-jf7rs 3 жыл бұрын

What makes them so enduring?

@iroblix6199 3 жыл бұрын

@@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).

@lampshade5449 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

What you have posited is technically "reduction".

@jacksonkarlson234 3 жыл бұрын

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

@warped_rider 3 жыл бұрын

@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 3 жыл бұрын

@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.

@creamandcream9331 Жыл бұрын

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!

@gfresh353 2 жыл бұрын

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

@sutats 3 жыл бұрын

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

@gkindustrialmachine1 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@MCRuCr 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@samuelestrada1476 3 жыл бұрын

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

@camiloguzman1801 3 жыл бұрын

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

@fether835 3 жыл бұрын

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

@captainkeyboard1007 3 жыл бұрын

I hope there will be more recycling plants throughout America.

@johncholmes643 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

@@johncholmes643 Food?

@johncholmes643 3 жыл бұрын

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

@mrwest5552 3 жыл бұрын

Thank You for this, this is an example of material actually getting the right process instead of being dumped in the earth.

@brendatenorio5721 3 жыл бұрын

So good to know this company is in business!

@asjadazeez 3 жыл бұрын

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

@mikejones8808 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@humphrey-7094 3 жыл бұрын

The right to repair and the right to recycle should be law.

@2hotflavored666 3 жыл бұрын

@@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. 😂

@yalamandarao6327 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@macrick 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Ayanechan16 2 жыл бұрын

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

@anabeatriz9362 3 жыл бұрын

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

@prerecordedresponse9884 3 жыл бұрын

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

@YurinovichDornburg 3 жыл бұрын

lol where

@prerecordedresponse9884 3 жыл бұрын

@@YurinovichDornburg 2:40 :p

@vasopel 3 жыл бұрын

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

@prerecordedresponse9884 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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? :-)

@oldlefty1267 3 жыл бұрын

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

@MCRuCr 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Norm475 3 жыл бұрын

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

@dheeraj_one 3 жыл бұрын

Because they are noisy.

@jed-henrywitkowski6470 3 жыл бұрын

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

@raceris7309 3 жыл бұрын

I thought mainly ships were given feminine names

@singhgurpreet9466 3 жыл бұрын

Hats off to all workers❤️🙏🏼

@51hankyspanky7 2 жыл бұрын

That is absolutely terrific! So glad to see this!

@V5mGpYp 3 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Lies again? RP Education

@MrWessiide 3 жыл бұрын

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

@sachinsoni1599 3 жыл бұрын

How wokeness can be based on stupidy..

@humphrey-7094 3 жыл бұрын

A female can be named after a male. America is literally the feminization of Amerigo, the map maker who lied about going to America. You have masculinity issues.

@CoolcatsSk8 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

The feminism in this video is definitely cringe

@ESPcrb 3 жыл бұрын

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

@henryc6867 Жыл бұрын

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

@jimmyjudd7732 Жыл бұрын

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

@migglemaggle9500 3 жыл бұрын

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

@wowJhil 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Love-jf7rs 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@Alphadan 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@1pcfred 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@1pcfred 2 жыл бұрын

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

@nobojerry 2 жыл бұрын

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

@captainkeyboard1007 3 жыл бұрын

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

@cjhification 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@DaedalianAbilon 2 жыл бұрын

lol its all Windows products

@bobfletcher8196 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing,we need more of these places.

@camiloguzman1801 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@gamehacker2801 3 жыл бұрын

Damn these series are gold

@baljeetwilliams6884 3 жыл бұрын

Recycled

@samuraiboi2735 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

My job is to smoke weed on my KZfaq channel 😳

@thelionryder5492 3 ай бұрын

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,

@MarkHopewell 2 жыл бұрын

An absolutely smashing [no pun intended] presentation. Thank you.

@89ksantoso 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

Same bro

@bruh321xyz4 3 жыл бұрын

me too.

@parsarahimi71 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@benis4958 3 жыл бұрын

Always tryna take away jobs

@Love-jf7rs 3 жыл бұрын

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

@GamerBoy705_yt 2 жыл бұрын

@@pascalfrancisco8795 idc

@kejigamer 2 жыл бұрын

Stop trying to steal our jobs!!!

@khanhanif5120 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@JimWhitaker 3 жыл бұрын

Good video. Just the right balance of sights and explanation for this introduction.

@Odia_bhaina 3 жыл бұрын

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

@manavmishra9071 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Arun_hog 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Subhrajyoti 3 жыл бұрын

true man

@arpanmandal7244 3 жыл бұрын

Already have in dharabi

@jvl3215 3 жыл бұрын

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

@wuuduu609 2 жыл бұрын

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

@joytotheworld2100 2 жыл бұрын

Great report. I would love to get a tour of the facility. Recycling is a passion of mine.

@CarolineMcNutt 3 ай бұрын

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

@spotoncam3640 3 жыл бұрын

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 👍

@jamescryptoguru6468 3 жыл бұрын

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

@benlionelscott5593 3 жыл бұрын

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

@ameliadavis2869 3 жыл бұрын

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@yonglee4810 3 жыл бұрын

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@@yonglee4810 Yeah

@shalaemorgan1353 3 жыл бұрын

My first investment with Martin S. Schwatz earned me profits of $25,620 and ever then he has been delivering,

@tommc49 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@1pcfred 2 жыл бұрын

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

@torchandhammer 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@victorb5 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@jameliaraymond184 3 жыл бұрын

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

@picobyte 3 жыл бұрын

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

@johndoyle4723 8 ай бұрын

Very nice operation. I operated shredders for many years, maintenance is a nightmare, especially if rogue material gets in there. Thanks for the video, good luck

@lydiam974 3 жыл бұрын

Depending on one stream of income have never made anyone an earning check don't put your hope on Forbes.

@michaeljohn3328 3 жыл бұрын

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

@sussiescott6548 3 жыл бұрын

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@zackyo370 3 жыл бұрын

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@jameswalk7958 3 жыл бұрын

I heard that her strategies are really good.

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@papajohnsuk5965 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I wish!

@ryanroberts1104 3 жыл бұрын

"This area is super secure, you need key card access, I'm not sure if I can get in." Door opens with no effort. "Oh, I can....a....hahahahahahahhha" Top level security for sure!

@bunnyoppress 3 жыл бұрын

She clearly scanned her badge.

@ryanroberts1104 3 жыл бұрын

@@bunnyoppress You clearly missed the point entirely.

@bunnyoppress 3 жыл бұрын

If you want to highlight their lack of security, why not point out that she didn't know she had clearance rather than the ease with which the door opened? Ijs

@ronaldevans4709 2 жыл бұрын

That's crazy but thank you for recycling all the electronics that is no longer usable I really appreciate you what you do please be safe.

@tomiadventures Жыл бұрын

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.

@DR-rt7hh 3 жыл бұрын

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

@noir2601 3 жыл бұрын

Lots and lots of money

@baljeetwilliams6884 3 жыл бұрын

@@noir2601 and luck

@Sorcerers_Apprentice 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about the same thing 😊

@mactavishmods 3 жыл бұрын

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

@insectbite1714 3 жыл бұрын

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

@dipankarbarooah3392 2 жыл бұрын

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

@KCECC-ActiveHealthyAgeing Жыл бұрын

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

@kudalaut.official 3 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@jonedog2567 3 жыл бұрын

Now that's an operation. Holy smokes lol

@originalunoriginal4055 Жыл бұрын

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

@L_U-K_E 2 жыл бұрын

Very glad places like this exist

@ScareFestTTV 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@xanscobe 3 жыл бұрын

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

@robert9595 3 жыл бұрын

Those are continents mate.

@Red-Feather 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for this. Must be very expensive to recycle.

@monuomveersingh5043 2 жыл бұрын

This place is really a awesome. They are doing one of the best work for the planet.

@obbsheistone7879 2 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@1pcfred 2 жыл бұрын

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

@nozombi7308 2 жыл бұрын

Great job !!! So nice to have such production. Lets together make our planet clean again !!!

@canalsentir Жыл бұрын

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

@keepingmodern6161 3 жыл бұрын

Would we eventually have to go to the landfills to mine things one day I wonder

@landi76 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@captainkeyboard1007 3 жыл бұрын

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

@captainkeyboard1007 3 жыл бұрын

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

@microdubber Жыл бұрын

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.

@sims717 Жыл бұрын

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.

@astrophysics6326 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@seasong7655 3 жыл бұрын

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

@seasong7655 3 жыл бұрын

@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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@1pcfred 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing they have is chips anyone wants today.

@natemayer5498 Жыл бұрын

Always wondered what happens when I drop electronics at e-waste centers after that happens. Thanks for the video

@youme1414 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, madam, for building this recycling company. Power to women!

@nookied3735 3 жыл бұрын

Cringey

@dawnbirdz4831 3 жыл бұрын

ohhh, lemme grab that RTX real quick.

@davidsirett5560 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@artemirrlazaris7406 Жыл бұрын

Liquid systems and chemicals can also be recylced in a massive centrifugal isoaltion system once they are in tiny bits, varius chemicals/ bonding agents and can further allow various layer separations for ease.

@supreman303 3 жыл бұрын

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

@nicolaschu9599 3 жыл бұрын

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

@kingjames4886 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

Dents and scratches usually.

@PURENT 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

@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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@SollersSrappingandDiving Жыл бұрын

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

@deepakravindra8125 3 жыл бұрын

I love the way you doing its saving our beautiful Earth

@simonsays7688 2 жыл бұрын

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 👏