What is the most profitable e-waste item?
When it comes to gold recovery from e-waste, people mostly talk about processors. And the fact is that processors' recycling is not so profitable. And they are not even available in bulk quantities. Concentrate on the recycling of integrated circuits if you really want to make money from e-waste. I am talking about small-scale recyclers only. Big recyclers have big plants and so they are able to recycle everything. Chips are available in bulk quantities in my country. So, I would like to mention the prices of chips according to the Indian scrap market. There are two types of chips-PLCC & PQFP. The price for one kilo PLCC chips is rupees 3000/- (USD 40.54), and the price for one kilo PQFP chips is rupees 4000/- (USD 54). Around 70 percent of e-waste in India is recycled in the illegal sector. A great number of people here are engaged in the trading of big e-scrap lots, removing all the components from the PCBs, segregating them, and selling them to recyclers.
The precious metal yields from the above-mentioned computer motherboard chips per kilo are as follows:
PLCC- gold from 700 to 800 milligrams,
PQFP- gold from 1.25 grams to 1.5 grams, silver 2 grams, palladium 100 milligrams.
The cell- phone and ram chips have different yields.
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