Precious Metals

			Precious Metals
			Recycling is the best way to get our precious earth's metals back into use, instead of continuing to strip mine and rape our earths deep caverns of precious resources. The amount of energy it takes to recycle precious metals is much less than mining. Mining, and gold mining in particular, is one of the world’s dirtiest industries, but gold is also the most profitable mineral recovered from discarded cell phones. Recapturing gold through the recycling process would lessen the need for new mining while providing compensation for recyclers. If all of the estimated 130 million cell phones that will be discarded in the U.S. this year were recycled, they would yield about 202,000 ounces of gold, according to EARTHWORKS. That is two times the annual gold production at the Zortman-Landusky mine; an operation that left a legacy of pollution and devastation for the Native American tribes that live adjacent to the site. Please let us help you to better our planet. We need to be taking better care of our gift. Recycle your electronics. The more we recycle, the less they will need to mine. Home