How much gold can we get from mobile phones? :- It's said that a bag of used mobile phones contains a gram of gold. There are a lot of mobile phones in the world, so how much of the gold we need can we get from them, asks William Kremer.
And the idea that 41 handsets contain 1g of gold stems from a UN report on electronic waste. Brussels-based technology company Umicore told the BBC you can actually get this amount of gold from just 35 phones.
To look at it another way, Umicore says a tonne of old phones (weighed without their batteries) yields about 300g of gold.
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