Europe’s e-waste is a valuable resource – let’s not throw it away

By Nils Pauliks, PhD Candidate, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University

Throwing something away that is urgently needed, expensive and difficult to source sounds crazy. Yet out of the 60 metals contained in old electronic devices like phones, screens or washing machines, only a few get recycled. That includes precious metals like gold or silver and some other metals like aluminium or copper. The rest are effectively single-use metals, used once then lost during collection or through incineration.

Metals are mined from ore and refined by using a lot of energy and resources as part…

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