#Industry ·2026-02-13
In the early morning of the city, trucks drive into the factory and unload mountains of used mobile phones, computers, and home appliances. They are disassembled and sorted, eventually converging into a silver-gray long line—the circuit board recycling equipment. The conveyor belt slowly starts up, like a patient river, delivering capacitors, resistors, and gold fingers the size of a fingernail to their respective destinies without a single omission. The first checkpoint is the "ice-breaking" shredder. Alloy cutter rolls tear apart the board at 300 revolutions per minute, instantly separating fiberglass from copper foil with a crisp ripping sound. Dust is sucked away by negative pressure, and the PM2.5 online monitor shines green, like a loyal sentinel, refusing to let any pollutants escape into the sky. Next, the fragments enter the "flotation bath". Water and bubbles intertwine into an invisible net, lifting the lightweight resin while sinking the heavy copper particles to the bottom. The copper's purity is raised to 98% here, enough to return directly to the smelter and become wires, motors, or even the bloodline of the next batch of circuit boards. The most mysterious is the "low-temperature flash evaporation furnace". The furnace maintains a temperature of 280°C, just enough to melt solder but not ignite it. Liquid tin flows like a silver stream down the grooves into molds, cooling into blocks of recycled "LEGO bricks". Gold, palladium, and platinum hidden in the chip's crevices are collected by atomization, with 0.3 grams of gold able to light an energy-saving lamp, making the "urban mine" truly shine. At the equipment terminal, mechanical arms compress the remaining fiberglass powder into gray bricks. They no longer contain heavy metals but have a compressive strength of 30 MPa, suitable for paving park paths, allowing pedestrians to walk on the echoes of yesterday's electric currents. I stood at the exit and saw a brand-new motherboard labeled with: 23% of materials come from yesterday's waste. At that moment, I heard the circuits running again in the silicon canyon, like spring thunder rolling across the earth. Circuit board recycling equipment is not cold steel—it's a translator of time, awakening dormant resources and ensuring that the reflection of electronic civilization is no longer just toxins and garbage, but the spark of the next innovation.
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No. 15 Industrial Avenue, Industrial Park, Shicheng County, Jiangxi Province
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