Much of the metal content in gadgets such as mobile phones is valuable, really valuable, so why do we send it to landfill? Australia risks missing out on new and sustainable business opportunities by ignoring the benefits of recycling metals.
"We've found that recovering the five million tonnes of metal such as iron, aluminium and copper locked up in landfills or discarded products could provide up to 70 per cent of Australia's metal consumption each year,"- Ass Prof. Damien Giurco (Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS).
