[crusty old prospector]

Alchemy?

[bakeneko]

Yeah we need people with disabilities and special needs to sling around toxic chemicals all day. Wait a minute didn’t the bad guys in WWII make people do stuff like this in their camps?

[JZelle]

Is your laptop sponge worthy?

[Getready]

Is this new news? I thought that all electronic component salvage was for the rare metals..Also salvaging(or stealing) catalytic converter for the platinum.

[wbarmy]

The Chinese have been doing e-waste recycling for about 40 years with backyard smelters. Horrible pollution and little to no safety concerns.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

R.B. Perhaps they are using information from this discovery: bacteria-gold-digesting-toxic-metals

[catnipman]

nothing new here ... for years, i’ve been selling to a local junk dealer PC MOBOs, daughter cards, and memory sticks, all of which contain gold plated contacts ... consumer-grade electronics are utter trash, and don’t contain a spec of gold, excepting a few very high-end devices and super high end studio grade equipment ...

[Chickensoup]

This has been going on for years
Friend Got a few thousand out of a system/36 iirc