This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.
Each year, Americans throw away boşa harcamak millions of tons of electronic devices alet. That means business is good for a small electronics recycler in Chantilly, Virginia.
Company President Jeremy Faber established kurmak PC Recycler. He spoke to us from the floor of his company's processing imal center. Workers were busy taking apart ayırmak;bölüştürmek televisions, cell phones and computers -- anything electronic.
Jeremy Faber says the flow akın of discarded atılmış electronics is only increasing artmak.
JEREMY FABER: "Electronics recycling is the fastest growing waste stream akış in the United States right now.
Recycling electronic waste is not a single job. Newer devices can be rebuilt yeniden kurmak and resold tekrar satmak. Breaking down electronics into small parts for refiners arıtıcı to melt eritmek and purify arıtmak is another part of the business. Operations Manager Andrew Portare says computer circuit devre [elek.] boards levha are rich resources kaynak.
ANDREW PORTARE: "Boards have the highest scrap hurda value in them so you can actually see on the back you're looking at different types of metals. This one is a really good example. Some of the older ones are mainly all gold.'
Gold now sells for more than one thousand three hundred dollars an ounce 31 gram (kuyumculuk). Twenty-five percent of PC Recycler's sales come from selling parts to refiners.
Refining arıtma companies pay more than ten dollars a kilogram for computer boards. PC Recycler can also lift kaldırmak profits kar by holding tutmak metal-rich parts until prices değer rise yükseltmek.
ANDREW PORTARE: "If copper bakır is up one day, we can ship nakletmek all of our copper extract öz and capitalize sermayeleştirmek on the market.'
Computers also hold private or secret information. And securing that data is the fastest growing part of PC Recycler's business.Completely tamamen removing kaldırmak data from a computer hard drive hard disk is not easy. PC Recycler can remove data magnetically manyetik olarak or completely destroy and recycle the drives.
Discarding ayırmak;bölüştürmek waste in a way that meets karşılamak government environmental protection rules is also important. Old TVs can contain ihtiva etmek over a kilogram of lead kılavuz as well as cadmium kadmiyum-- both highly poisonous zehirli.
PC Recycler supports the Basel Action Network, which seeks araştırmak to limit harmful waste and technology. The company says it does not export electronics to China, India or Africa where environmental rules are weak.
Jeremy Faber says PC Recycler has been in business since two thousand three,expanding genişleyen from waste management to other, more technical services.
JEREMY FABER: "There really isn't a lot of industries out there that are like this. There's either the scrap industry where they're shredding doğramak cars and shredding tires and there's the refurbished PC market and we're sort of gibi sit right in between both of those.'
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