#Industry ·2026-02-13
In the era of information explosion, we replace our mobile phones every eighteen months on average and discard our computers every three years. These "electronic legacies" that are casually tossed into drawers are actually dormant mines: a ton of waste circuit boards contains four times as much gold as gold ore, and copper, silver, palladium, and platinum are also abundant. However, if not handled properly, they will also release lead, mercury, and brominated flame retardants into the soil and rivers, becoming hard-to-heal ecological wounds. Circuit board recycling equipment serves as a safety bridge between this "urban mine" and the "pollution bomb". Walking into the green workshop located in Kunshan Development Zone, the first thing that catches your eye is a thirty-meter-long "disassembling dragon". At the front end, mechanical arms operate with precision like pianists, removing capacitors, chips, and heat sinks one by one; in the middle, optical sorting machines use near-infrared spectroscopy to identify 0.1-millimeter-thick metal layers, making 3,000 judgments per second; at the end, negative pressure cracking furnaces heat the substrates to 500 degrees Celsius in an oxygen-free environment, vaporizing resin for power generation, and allowing metals to flow like melted chocolate into molds, cooling into "environmentally friendly ingots" that glow dimly. The entire process operates in a closed loop, with dioxin emissions one order of magnitude lower than EU standards, truly achieving "extracting every bit of value from waste and eliminating foul odors from chimneys". What's even more impressive are the data: this equipment line can process 7,000 tons of waste boards per year, producing 800 tons of copper and 1.5 tons of gold, equivalent to reducing the mining of 2.6 million tons of ore and saving 120 million kW of electricity. To put it another way, every recycled ton of waste board plants 4,000 carbon sinks on Earth. Former workers in small workshops who relied on burning to extract copper have now been trained as equipment operators, wearing white gloves to monitor screens in air-conditioned rooms, with their incomes tripled. They say that before, "you burned all day and coughed for a year", but now, "you press a button and make clean money". Of course, technology is not magic. Recycling costs are still higher than those of primary mining, and policy subsidies and public sorting are the "second power supply" for the continuous operation of the equipment. When you and I put old phones into community recycling bins instead of throwing them into trash cans, we are "feeding energy" to this steel dragon. Circuit board recycling equipment is a cold set of gears and conveyor belts, but it carries humanity's most passionate imagination of resource recycling: giving every piece of waste board a new life and ensuring that "doomsday mines" will no longer appear in the future of the Earth.
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No. 15 Industrial Avenue, Industrial Park, Shicheng County, Jiangxi Province
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