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Originally Posted by Oldsguy
I heard that have a bunch of spies in New York city scaping old chewing gum off the sidewalks and then they ship it back to China and make that stuff from it.
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Lab experiments have proven that all of the metals extracted by burning PC boards (nickel, lead, mercury, gold, tin, etc.) have been all found in similar proportions in cheap Chinese made jewelry...
Soooo, we ship our old electronics to China for "recycling". Young children bust it open and burn it along the streets to collect the metals that melt away. This metal mass is carried over to little home-based "factories" and melted & molded into jewelry. It then comes back to the US and is sold in the dollar stores.
The result? A computer ring can be had for just a dollar...
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