Why should we recycle electronic waste?

As early as the 1970s, people have begun to recycle electronic waste. But until now, there are some people don't know why we should recycle electronic waste. In fact, it is because that recycling electronic waste can bring many benefits, such as environment benefit, resource benefit, as well as economic benefit, etc. In this article, I will explain it to you.

Various electronic waste and recycled metal

Firstly, recycling electronic waste can bring environment benefit.

There are many harmful elements in the electronic waste, such as mercury, selenium, nickel, lead, chromium, and hydrocolyte. If directly throwing them away, it will not only cause environmental pollution, but also threaten the health of local residents. But recycling them can prevent this happening.

Metal resources recovered by circuit board recycling machine

Secondly, recycle electronic waste can bring resource benefit.

In fact, except the above harmful elements, electronic waste usually contain some metals, such as copper, gold, iron, lead, etc. the content is tens times or even hundreds of times of natural mines. Research and analysis results show that one ton electronic boards can be separated into 143kg of copper, 0.5kg of gold, 40.8kg of iron, 29.5kg of lead, 2.0kg of tin, 18.1kg of nickel, and 10.0kg of antimony. These metals are very easy to separate from electronic waste, and its recovery cost is lower than mining natural deposits. So recycling electronic waste can resource benefit, which can alleviate the current situation of resource shortage.

Recovered metal and resin powder

Thirdly, recycle electronic waste can bring economic benefit.

After recycling metals from electronic waste, You can get economic benefit by selling them. They can be sold directly in the local metal recycling market. Or you can sell it after purification. You can extract pure gold or pure copper from these metals. And the price of gold and copper is pretty high, which can bring considerable profit.

Circuit board recycling machine

Besides, it is not difficult to recycle electronic waste. Printed circuit board recycling machine can recycle electronic waste only need to crush and separation. If you have a huge amount of electronic waste to process, welcome to Henan Doing Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd, which has many machines with different processing capacity to be chosen.