In this day and age, it’s almost normal for everyone to have an old smartphone or laptop lying around at home. Most people think that it is not worth anything anymore because it might be broken or not usable. But these old devices are almost as valuable as a pirate’s treasure of gold and silver, even when you talk about electronic scrap speaking.

Valuable Metals In A Smartphone

An old smartphone can still be quite valuable, because there may well be gold or silver in the device. The fact is that in very many electrical devices there are many quite different metals. Some of them are very valuable because they are no longer so common in nature. That’s why old and defective tablets, smartphones, flat-screen TVs, refrigerators or even washing machines should not simply be left to rot carelessly in the basement, garage or any other place. Nor do they simply belong in the trash, where they may even be incinerated.

Electrical Scrap Can Be Reused

Many materials from these defective devices can be reused. The devices are first shredded and then everything is sorted. The things that can be reused are used to build new devices. That is why it is important that these devices are dropped off at a recycling yard be handed in. Above all, this helps the environment and you do a good work.

Explanation Of The Difficult Words

Electrical scrap is the name given to all electrical and electronic equipment or its components that are old or no longer work.

A recycling yard is a special collection point for waste. Here is brought what may be reused in the construction of new things.

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