From: Resource Recycling Magazine
Jan. 2004
E-scrap metal prices at high levels
"Rising demand, low supplies and a weak dollar have combined to push up the prices of the base and precious metals found in obsolete electronics. Ferrous scrap prices are at record levels, gold prices have moved to a 14-year high, silver prices are at a five-year best and copper prices have risen to a six-and-one-half-year record."
Note: Yet as a recycler of E-scrap ourselves, our processing costs are almost doubling every year. Currently our fixed cost to recycle/reprocess a standard Monitor is: $5.15, a CPU/box is $1.47, Rack Mount Servers are $0.39, and a Printer is $2.11 And while Gold is at a 14 year high, the amount of gold in a standard PC is less than 1/10th what it was fifteen years ago, and much harder to extract.
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Friday, January 09, 2004
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