96% of the materials that make up a mobile phone can be easily recycled.
The internal circuits of the mobile phone, for example, contain 10 grams of copper. Reused, it is used to produce electric cables, vacuum cleaners, hair dryers and car parts.
The liquid crystal screen hides 1 gram of rare earth, precious and little known metals: cerium, lanthanum, terbium and dysprosium, etc ... They are very expensive, as well as rare, and once recovered they can be reused in the production circuits of equipment high tech or to make battery screens.
In the internal circuits there is no lack of gold: 0.024 grams, which is used in jewelry or resold in the form of ingots. And 11 grams of iron can be recovered from the card, to be supplied to the steel industry and to companies that produce materials for flooring.
Also on the card there are 0.30 grams of silver: it can be recycled for medical ointments, in jewelry and in the metallurgical industry. Finally, the battery contains 3.5 grams of cobalt and 0.6 of lithium, to be used to make new batteries. And 50 percent of a cell phone is plastic, equal to 65 grams, which, once recycled, has a second life in the building industry in the form of pipes and sheaths.
