Cell+Phones

Cell Phones  This table and more information can be found at @http://www.eoearth.org/article/Cell_phone_recycling
 * Metal Contents in Cell Phones** 
 * **Table 1.** Weight and gross value of selected metals in cell phones in the United States. ||
 * The average weight (wt) of a cell phone is estimated to be 113 grams (g), exclusive of batteries and charger (Nokia, 2005). Metal contents are weights in metric tons (t), unless otherwise noted. Values in U.S. dollars are calculated by using the average of prices for 2002–2004 from USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2005 (Amey, 2005; Edelstein, 2005; Hilliard, 2005a,b). The gross values do not include costs of recycling. Data may not add to totals shown because of independent rounding. ||
 * |||| **Metal content and value estimated for a typical cell phone** |||| **Metal content and value for 180 million cell phones in use in 2004** |||| **Metal content and value for 130 million cell phones retired in 2005** |||| **Metal content and value for 500 million obsolete cell phones in storage in 2005** ||
 * **Metal** || **Wt1 (g)** || **Value** || **Wt3 (t)** || **Value** || **Wt3 (t)** || **Value** || **Wt3 (t)** || **Value** ||
 * Copper || 16 || $0.03 || 2,900 || $6.2 million || 2,100 || $4.6 million || 7,900 || $17 million ||
 * Silver || 0.35 || $0.06 || 64.1 || $11 million || 46 || $7.9 million || 178 || $31 million ||
 * Gold || 0.034 || $0.40 || 6.2 || $72 million || 3.9 || $52 million || 17 || $199 million ||
 * Palladiun || 0.015 || $0.13 || 2.7 || $22.7 million || 2.0 || $16 million || 7.4 || $63 million ||
 * Platinum || 0.00034 || $0.01 || 0.06 || $1.4 million || 0.04 || $1 million || 0.18 || $3.9 million ||
 * Total ||  ||   || 2,973 || $113 million || 2,152 || $82 million || 8,102 || $314 million ||
 * # Metal content (wt) calculated from weight of a typical cell phone (Nokia, 2005) and data from Rob Bouma, Falconbridge Ltd., written and oral communs., 2005.
 * 1) Number of cell phones in use in 2004 from Charny, 2005. Number of cell phones retired in 2005 from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2005. Number of obsolete cell phones projected to be in storage in 2005 from Most, 2003.
 * 2) Metal content (wt) calculated from data from Rob Bouma, Falconbridge Ltd., written and oral communs., 2005. ||