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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 630791, member: 19065&quot;]@ Cloudsweeper99 &amp; <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/members/danisanub/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/members/danisanub/">danisanub</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, that&#039;s correct. If you collect the components out of electronics you can sell them as scrap. There are a lot of new companies that have started trying to clean up the environment by collecting discarded consumer electronics which are then separated from all the plastics and silica, etc. They literally crunch and devour monitors, cell phones, batteries, etc. to the point of melting down the metals and separating out raw metals, which are then sent in various forms to assayers in return for metal value, returning PMs to the market instead of the landfill or dump.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of charity programs that request your donation of&nbsp; old cell phones and computers, really only re-sell the devices off to other companies that do this kind of recycling work in return for the value of metals extracted, and from there take that money to buy new cell phones for people who are victims of abuse or need a phone for whatever reason provided to them by the charity.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can also find auctions on eBay from people selling motherboards and chips from old computers for their gold contacts, scrap/bullion value. Just look in the bullion category pages where you see bars, nuggets, leaf and gold dust type auctions listed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe if you watch Explorer on the <u><i>National Geographic channel</i> on July 7th</u>, they will be re-airing a recent documentary called, &#039;<b>Secret History of Gold</b>&#039; and in this one hour program the visit an e-waste recycler, showing the operation of rendering PMs from waste products. Check this link and your local cable/satellite provider for times this show might be airing in your region. They play this show A LOT these days since there&#039;s so much gold talk going on.</p><p><a href="http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/3822/Overview" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/3822/Overview" rel="nofollow">http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/3822/Overview</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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