If you have an old iPhone at home, you're sitting on a gold mine! Your iPhone is full of precious metals and Apple wants it back. It is true that an old phone on the market has no real value, but what is trash for one person can be a treasure for another. In this case, it's Apple. Over the past year, he's recovered over a ton of gold from old iPhones, Macs and iPads!
Did you know it's in your phone iPhone gold and that in 2015 Apple managed to recycle from old iPhones for 40 million US dollars gold? Each phone has approx 30 milligrams of gold, which Apple uses for certain components. Gold is not the only precious metal that the American technology giant uses in its products. The iPhone also contains silver and zinc, and there used to be lead as well.
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Apple takes recycling seriously and with great zeal, not only for ecological reasons, but also for financial reasons, as this is a great business opportunity for the company from Cupertino. For 0.034 grams of gold otherwise we sell "only" on the market 1.60 euros, but when you multiply that by the number of old iPhones, you get a whopping number. One of the methods of Apple's recycling or obtaining gold is machine Liam (one is in California, the other in the Netherlands) who carefully disassembles the phones (in 2015 he disassembled 1.2 million) that Apple can reuse certain components when making a new smartphone.
