Recycle your GOLD from computers?

In IT industries especially for computer used a number of gold in their components. You can see through the CPU mainboard or MOBO. However, do we realize how many computers are dumped away since 20 years? Some might seen this as an opportunity in recycle business. Computer industries are moving faster and faster. Yet, the usage and demand of user are increasing and it may contribute towards MODERN waste. To make it useful than wasted, you need to recycle gold from the CPU components. But how? Read instructions below....

1.Open your CPU casing

When open your CPU casing, you can see the motherboard with processor, components like graphic card, ram, hardisk drive, power supply etc. Pull out all this component and divide it by part. For laptops, maybe a bit difficult but still you can try.

2. Separate into pieces

Please ensure you separate the CPU parts into different bin. For instance rams and graphic card should be put differently. Most computer recycling might ask you to separate metal and plastic components. Beside recycle the gold component, you are advisable to recycle the rest of component part. This will make your recycle work much easier by divide it.

3. Collect the scrap in volume

Before you recycle it, better collect as many units as you can. You can get a better price with more volume of CPU components. From the research done by EOEarth, 1 metric ton of electronic scrap from CPU contains more GOLD than recovered from 17 metric ton of gold ore. So one computers would not advisable if you plan to make money with recycle. The more old computer, the more money you will get.

p/s: this might be one of my business opportunities :)

source: www.ehow.com