Each type of material has its own specific use.
- Metal parts will end in a smelter for scrap.
- Ribbon and various cabling will be shipped to a subcontractor crusher that will separate rubber, copper and plastics.
- Hard disks, CD-Rom, ZIP drive ... will also be reduced to powder to separate aluminum and other noble metals.
- Computer cards have a more technical future to separate the various types of compounds (epoxy, noble metals, plastics, etc.). First, successive grindings will be necessary to reduce the cards to the 0.2 mm level. Then, density aspirators will successively separate the different compounds. Finally, chemistry will finish the separation for the recovery of the most noble metals.
