bottom of traffic cones. the warehouse isn t where the really clever bit happens. to get the precious and rare earth materials from the microchips, they grind them into a solution of bacteria. here is an example of how it might work. this is cut off an old electronic circuit board, gold leaf, 7% of the world bozovic gold is stuck in e waste. you would put this on the bacteria, the bacteria eat effectively the glue holding the gold on, the gold floats to the surface and float away. here is the after. you can see the board is completely stripped of gold. the normal recycling process either melts the circuit boards with heat or uses acid so it can have a big carbon footprint. they say the bacteria is much greener, and in the lab next door, they are working on making it more efficient. making it more efficient. bacteria are livin: making it more efficient. bacteria are living organisms, making it more efficient. bacteria are living organisms, so - making it more efficient. bacteria are
the warehouse isn t where the clever bit happens. to get the precious and rare material from the microchips, they grind them into a solution of bacteria. there is an example of how it might work. this is cut off an old electronic circuit board and is a gold leaf and apparently 7% of the world s gold is stuck in e waste. stuck in you put this in the bacteria, the bacteria eats the blue and gold floats to the surface and floats away and here is the after. you can see the board is completely stripped of gold. the normal recycling process either mills the circuit boards with heat mike mills or uses acid so it can have a big carbon footprint. they say there bacteria is much greener and in the lab next door they are working on making it more efficient. bacteria are living organisms so we have parameters we need to control and measure constantly, things like ph temperature, and the nutrients we