On: Royal Mint to build ‘world first’ plant to turn UK’s electronic waste into gold

[kderbyma]

Definitely not a world first. interesting - Europol had a crackdown on the ewaste market a few years back

[sschueller → kderbyma]

Switzerland does something similar with what is left after trash has been burned. It is against the law for the left over ash (schlake) to contain more than 1% of metal.

Therefore they extract it and sell it making a profit.

https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/redirect/detail/d8f14e5f-c921-446... (Swiss German)