urban mining

Scavenging through the scrap metal in old electronic products in search of precious metals (gold, silver, copper, iridium, palladium etc.).

Extracting valuable metals from electronic waste.

p1: I wonder where we will dump this old, shitty TV.
p2: Hmm, we should take it to junk yard, so they can urban mine it.
p1: Urban what?
p2: Urban mine it. To let it be dissembled and recycled
p1: Ok.

Urban mining is fast growing industry