A fortune in gold buried in e-waste

As the demand for new technology grows, so does the world’s mountain of discarded electronic devices. In ten years, the amount of gold that can be recovered from e-waste produced annually in the United States may be comparable to that extracted each year in the country, according to an analysis of future e-waste production.¹.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03564-0

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