Recycling: Old cell phones are a gold mine | DW English
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- Опубликовано: 13 дек 2011
- Just about all Germans have three of four old mobile telephones lying about in a drawer somewhere. That's more than 72 million cell phones country-wide. But simply throwing them away is what's really wasteful.
The electronic elements of cell phones contain valuable materials such as copper, silver, gold and rare earth metals which can earn their owners good money! Germans can sell their old mobiles on the Internet portal "Wir kaufens". The company that runs it, asgoodas, from Frankfurt-Oder receives more than 6000 cell phones a month. In the US and Britain, such opportunities have existed for a long time. Now the business is gaining momentum in Germany.
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I have my mother's Samsung which still works from around 1999, no parts have been replaced for it and charger still works. You can call people with it and it works just fine. Pretty amazing to be honest.
After it fell down some stairs and drowning in the water my nokia 5230 still glichly works fine
People throw away a lot of stuff that they can actually sell and still has value, but they just don't know it.
I bet they have a backroom for nokia 3310 because they cannont destroy them. :D
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This is great to see! The vast amounts of electronic waste is piling up. I work with these metals everyday and the value just keeps rising. Thanks Deutsche Welle
recycling is so cool!!!
I'm glad to hear these old phones can have a new life (either as someone else's phone or as raw material then whatever from there)
I started watching DW-TV at a tender age because of their catchy presentations especially in tech stuff. I'm not bored yet. Good stuff
This is a very good business recycling of the old electronic products. Very Good. And this is a perfect invention.
love the whole thing of recycling these instead of filling up landfills
I want these old phones
Me too.
3:39 he works for abstergo industries
What the fuck?
Lol good catch! He's s Templar.
Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed lol
Gotta call ezio
those sheets of copper are addictive to watch
how can it be ok to insult someone for a bad joke ? -why not just thumb it down ?
sorry to hear that
i can see my mobilephone up there
Lots of good stuff
I have taken so many phones from recycling bins including a Moto z and galaxy s6 edge. And they were going to e waste (they both perfectly work)
People even throw away working phones just like my grandma and grandpa did...
What's the difference between the one extracted from ores and this
Yeah.... they made out of solid gold )
some people don't know some phones are rare and worth a lot of money
Seeing all of those mobos getting crushed in a pile... brought a sad, sad tear to my eye :c
Central America needs companies like this!!! Just in El Salvador 20 years a go!!! Most of the urban areas residents had. Cellphones, imagine a least 1 million of cellphone, dispose every year , most companies would give. The cellphones for Free.
The US still does not do this very much, recycling equals Big Money, too! (Jan. 11, 2018)
Brilliant!
1:24 Is his name Laser? (Lasor?) Or is that some kind of company?
How can I buy used phones online and receive them in Kenya?
Awesome video I never knew what I just watched
0:18 Nokia 3310 spotted again :)
+Minicraft Aircraft nokia 3310 will brake the machines and they need to buy another ones :)
+Robert s there is more than one nokia 3310 in this machine, so its likely that the entire building will get destroyed XD
+Robert s true
Does anyone know if these processes are being employed in the U.S? Can we recycle metals from their phones like this?
i got 2 Nokia nse-1nx
worth anything ?
Brilliant Germans.
Eh, not really, there's a recycling centre like this in my city, it happens all over the world.
It’s good to see old phones getting to shine again after being inactive for so long. The memory wipe is a bit sad though, like the memory wipes Star Wars droids get to prevent them from gaining independence.
hi,its really amazing and interesting. how u get those old phones ? do the latest models of phones like samsung and apples ip still contain gold ? maybe we can work out this business in my country.
All phones have gold,but newer ones have less
Tell me any one company number and per cost moblie piece how many
Amazing!
Great, think we should have similar high tech plants in USA.
I am really interested of how muchncan my nokia 220 cost it is about 4 years old. The small screen ones.
nuffinbutfishing dumbass
how i contact recycling mobile in German ?
i stil got 3 of them ant they still working just battery ded :(
Shredder explodes when trying to process nokia 3310....
i ve seen this many time on sparkasse bank ,people throw their defect cell phones on boxes
3:11 this molten lead is very dangerous.
i like the copper as well
I need more clue please.
From what I hear, i doubt they'll be able to shred it if they tried. (I've never used one of these "Nokia") Mobile phones these days...my dad once dropped one and it never worked again. just DROPPED IT on the ground.
@Franco Smith Your forgetting about how much it would cost to mine the raw materials out of the ground. It's alot cheaper to recycle.
can i supply you cell phones and how much will one scrap phones be worth if i decide to supply in bulk
Nigerians and business
$2 per scrap cell phone not
Take a look att my Collection of old phones
i wonder how much zack morrises phone was worth, prob had 3 tons of gold in it considering how huge it was
Can you imagine the amount of germs in those piles!? Sick
anyone else get the feeliing to destroy your cell phone to get the gold out of it?lol
How much gold could i get from 3 phones?
if u are interested in melting copper and stuff u should check out Rönnskär. its likewise to this tho mutch bigger and interesting :)
Guy drops he iPhone in the pile and it gets melted down OH NO MY APPLE PIE IS OVER COOKED
@divaladona could you repeat that in english please
How can I send my old phones from India? Is it possible?
4UStreetfighter
I was searching recycling cellphones and this pop-up!!!!
wow, with all the amperage wasted on the electrolysis process alone which translates into a hefty electricity bill, how would these people still be able to turn a profit on their final 99.9% purity copper metal product?
wow thanks
I seen too absturgo industries / Templars on his helmet
yes just a little bit
Fabio Capellos new job
Yea i recently heard the chemicals are really pricy.
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I know how my old phone is worth all my pictures
Screw the gold,i want that Nokia 3310,i have one on my left.
Believe it or not i've had some dreams that looked like the cells in this video.
Third dream i was walking on the street and i heard about some trash bags full of phones,but there was nothing left when i got there.
Second dream i was on a place with some guys and we found some cellphone pits.
First dream i was near a road and i found some thrown cellphones on the side on a little hill.
I don't know what's up with me,lol.
I wanted to see the gold bars! Not the copper plates.
John Wayne they hide them in Fort Knox
can i get one?
Its probably the other way around. Maybe thats why the copper price is so high? :)
Also never put your phone number on youtube its one of the privacy rules
All the nokia 3310 go in a separate line to be shipped to Mordor.
Joe they need good defences. use those as bricks
I wannnntttttt these old phones for my collection and they are getting destroyed
Do new phones also have gold?
Was this video incomplete, i was like , hey wtf, damnit.
It’s a cool prcess, i suppose also the plastic will be recycled or sold to recycling plastic company’s as oil and plastic will be more scase each day.
Oi! Where's my phone gone?
I love my 3310 (I have 3, use one). The best phone ever made.
I remember my father and grandfather having pagers way back when.. beepbeep beepbeep, then find a pay phone! It was great
These days a man cant go no where, or get anything done without having to stop at a public restroom to jack off to porn on my Iphone, and troll youtube.. its awfull!
omg i love to dive in the for more to take home with me for my colection of phones
This explains why the pennies were taken out of circulation. The industries wanted copper.
This is where Verizon's replacement phone's come from....?..!?lol
Precious Metals
have u noticed not one iphone
Scrap shop for us
those mobile phones could be used in other ways, they could be sold or given on a long leg, I would personally just mine the mobile phone for gold, which are already very broken almost all those mobile phones in the electrical scrap or maybe just do not work batteries but batteries can also be actually fix it if you know how to do it I would personally sell it to collectors and not destroy it like that
solutions for.copper is convert them into radiator for cars
@curtanee at least 1000...
@1:47 uhmmmm only counted 4.... or my eyes just playing tricks
0:19 too bad you wont get the gold out of that Nokia 3310
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A ton for only 300 grams?
well thats 12.500 dollars
Emphasis on *ton*.
prepareuranus and you know how much they get those things into production line and how much it costs to do, they wouldn't be doing this if there was no good profit margin, but there is so they do it to get the materials into reuse on some other products.
But it's still very little profit.
Individuals wouldn't dream of getting that amount either lol.
dont forget that pound of silver
Nice job abstergo
The MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR when it came to Washington state this year and last allowed guests to bring an old cell phone to recycle and gain admission for ten dollars rather than twenty-five. I love hearing stories like in the video here to show material being used again and again. From, -'tarotworldtour'
yah the iphone
I SAW A MICRO TAC THERE
so you know what it's like
wach & save money
ladayna el katir
they recycling 2 tones of cellphones.... whats that, about 50 nokia's?
0:11 holy shit
I actually found one of those old phones outside on the grass in a box . I was like what’s this? And then I open the box . I was like holy shit an old phone. But I am not giving it away. Because it’s mines! Mines only!! What am I? Gollum from fucking lord of the rings? Lol 😂