Cow and Boy Classics by Mark Leiknes for March 24, 2015
March 23, 2015
March 25, 2015
Transcript:
"Even if we tried to recycle Dad's old cell phone, they'd probably ship it some Third World country..." "...Where impoverished villagers would smelt it for precious metals, releasing deadly plumes of carcinogens into their environment." "If only there were more high-tech ways to dispose of our high-tech toys." "What kind of precious metals" "What're you going to do with your half of the smelt?" "This is wrong." KRACKLE
A friend of mine tried to tell me to not get rid of any old computer parts like motherboards, dead hard drives, etc because they could be stripped for their rare metals.When I found out how much work it took to get the metals out, and how small of an amount it actually resulted in, I was like, “Screw that, I’m gonna get rid of them.”