Millions of pounds of earnings on outdated electronics receives Britain

The rapid development of modern computer and household appliances sends millions to the tone of obsolete or those who have exhausted their resource of models. But processing such electronics is quite expensive. Therefore, some companies prefer to simply send it abroad.

According to some reports, about one and a half million tons of various waste accumulates there for the year of work of landfills. If you throw aside real garbage, then here you can profit from gold, platinum, silver, copper, aluminum, high -quality steel, as well as various materials that fall under secondary processing. Directly in Britain, only the third part of all these household waste is processed. The remaining are actively settled for processing to India and other developing countries. Recently, a special government agency dealt with environmental issues drew attention to this problem. It turns out that the company, despite the quite high cost of the local processing of secondary raw materials, is originally stated by the originally stated quite high benefits, and millions of income is obtained due to the extraction of precious metals.

At the same time, according to the experts of the agency, their monopoly influence on competitors does not make it possible to develop this production directly in the country, attracting everyone to this craft, and precious metals go beyond the territory of the UK. It should also be noted that, despite the presence of a legislative framework, which since 2007 prohibits exporting a faulty computer equipment outside the country for further disposal and processing, more than half of such raw materials become the subject of trade in the black market.