Title: What is e-waste management? - Quora
Headings: What is e-waste management?
What is e-waste management?
Content: Some recyclers also sell glass and plastic pieces, but those are not always reusable and are often incinerated or dumped on landfills. Dumping
Sadly, the larger part of all e-waste is not recycled by a professional recycling companies. A lot of e-waste is dumped in landfills or (illegally) shipped to countries such as China, India or Ghana were people process the waste without proper equipment and protection. This usually leads to worker health problems and large environmental problems. Scrapping
There are individuals (both in developed and developing countries) called scrappers who like to recycle e-waste themselves and earn some money with this. This 'scrapping' is not without risk as many electronic devices contain toxic materials like brominated flame retardants, lead, mercury, cadmium or chromium. Also, some of the recycling processes require other toxic chemicals (e.g. acid treatments) for proper extraction. More information
Some e-waste recyclers have videos on YouTube to show you how exactly they recycle. Here are a few with different approaches (I'm not affiliated to any of them). Green Citizen, a small company that makes an effort to reuse as much as possible
ERI, one of the larger e-waste recyclers in the US
A vlogger called 'Moose scrapper' explains how to scrap for silver in electronics
Recycling e-waste dumped in West-Africa
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