WHEN THE price of gold hit its all time high of over US$1,800 (RM5,800) an ounce in 2011, Time magazine reported that about US$130,000 worth of scrap gold was recovered from electronic waste retrieved from around 100,000 used phones alone.
Unfortunately, not all waste has similar economic value.
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