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I was reading an article about smart phones. Here is a quote from it..
"If you are wondering what chemistry has to do with smartphones, just look at the periodic table. Of the 83 stable (nonradioactive) elements, at least 70 of them can be found in smartphones! That’s 84% of all of the stable elements."
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/...ast-issues/archive-2014-2015/smartphones.html
I was wondering how difficult it would be to separate all 70 of the elements from each other for later reuse. I've done some reading about recycling before and it seems like only some (e.g. gold, copper) elements get recycled by current process. I would like to know more about the challenges of E-waste recycling, the current state of the industry and what the future might hold. Thanks.
"If you are wondering what chemistry has to do with smartphones, just look at the periodic table. Of the 83 stable (nonradioactive) elements, at least 70 of them can be found in smartphones! That’s 84% of all of the stable elements."
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/...ast-issues/archive-2014-2015/smartphones.html
I was wondering how difficult it would be to separate all 70 of the elements from each other for later reuse. I've done some reading about recycling before and it seems like only some (e.g. gold, copper) elements get recycled by current process. I would like to know more about the challenges of E-waste recycling, the current state of the industry and what the future might hold. Thanks.