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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1712965, member: 37498&quot;]Not much that isn&#039;t already being recovered.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s look at just one application of silver in manufacturing: Socks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver nanoparticles are embedded into socks nowdays to prevent athletes&#039; foot.&nbsp; Let&#039;s assume each pair of socks requires .0001 ounce of silver and that each person in the US goes through 10 pairs of socks in a year.&nbsp; 300,000,000 * 10 * .0001 = 300,000 ounces of silver.&nbsp; None of that silver is technically &quot;destroyed&quot;, but none of it is realistically recoverable either.</p><p><br /></p><p>One source of recoverable silver (and gold) that recently became economically feasible is electronics.&nbsp; However, there is a whole lot more PM in 1990&#039;s electronics than there is in 2000&#039;s electronics, and even less in 2010&#039;s electronics.&nbsp; Manufacturers are producing more devices, but using less and less PM in each device.&nbsp; They&#039;re also no longer using mercury or lead, so most modern devices (minus the batteries) can go straight to the landfill.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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