Verge Science - Season 1 Episode 11 Your old phone is a veritable gold mine
E-waste is more than phones and laptops. There’s gold, silver, copper, and lots of other precious metals powering your electronics, and that makes for some valuable “e-waste”. And a recent study proposed that it’s now more cost-effective to dig minerals out of old electronics than out of the Earth. We crack open some old tech to see where these metals are hiding, and find out just how hard it is to reclaim them safely. Clarification: in citing India, China, and South Africa as suffering from growing e-waste problems, we didn’t mention that those countries are also producing record amounts of their own e-waste, in addition to anything being imported from other countries. E-waste from all sources is on the rise, forcing governments to figure out how to deal with it safely and efficiently.
First Air Date: May 01, 2018
Last Air date: Aug 28, 2018
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 17 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
IMDb: 0.00/10 by 0.00 users
Popularity: 1.113
Language: English
Keyword : technology
Season
Season 1
Episode
What self-driving cars can learn from brainless slime mold
NASA's InSight spacecraft just launched to Mars
Testing the limits of human vision
Blood types are a 20-million-year mystery
Bees are going extinct...but not the ones you think
How to memorize 70,000 digits of Pi
The microbial truth of how your cheese gets made
How this 50-year-old NASA material could kill cancer
Inside a volcano scientist’s campaign for Congress
Test firing a new rocket engine (and watching it explode)
Your old phone is a veritable gold mine
Why graphene hasn’t taken over the world...yet
Why wildfire season never stops
How NYC plans to survive the next superstorm
This monster plant is trying to take over. What if we let it?
Why Tesla is building city-sized batteries
88,000 tons of radioactive waste – and nowhere to put it
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