Reply to post: Re: Recycling: My big fat hairy arse.

Apple pulled 2,204lbs of gold out of old tech gear

PNGuinn

Re: Recycling: My big fat hairy arse.

Beware of recycled steel too.

Most scrap steel contains a significant amount of other muck - eg paint and plastic.

The resulting "recycled" steel is likely to contain "inclusions" and voids which both reduce its strength and increase the risk of corrosion.

Quite a few manufacturers have come unstuck in the past using it inappropriately.

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