[asien]

The problem is today no industrial bother recycling them , it’s just cheaper to buy new material.

Those 85% are actually 15% in effective.

[eutectic]

Surely copper at least is worth recycling?

[asien]

The materials are indeed worth recycling but the process is just too expensive and complicated.

Best examples would be devices like phones/microwave/tv they contain lots of those rare materials.

Industrial simply prefer to sell junks for cheap in bulk to the African continent where very poor people burn those junks to extract the rare minerals.

It’s not as simple as « 100% recyclable = Always Recycled »