Australia is currently letting a wealth of resources go to waste, argues an expert from Swinburne University, who believes the country is missing out on an incredible opportunity to recover and repurpose precious resources from old or broken mobile phones.
Professor Alan Duffy, an astrophysicist from Swinburne University, said that while the phones themselves may not work, many metal components, including gold, silver, copper, and palladium, can be re-used after being extracted.
