What are the recyclable components of waste PCB board?

The electronic products in our lives, such as mobile phones, computers, TVs, refrigerators, etc., have PCB board. The scrap PCB boards that are dismantled from these electronic products can also be recycled because the boards contain various metals and resin fiber.

The waste PCB board contains nearly 20 kinds of non-ferrous metals and precious metals, the metal content is as high as 40%, Usually the most in the metal content is copper, also there is gold, aluminum, nickel, lead, silicon metal and so on contained in it.

Recyclable components of waste PCB board

From the research for normal PCB boards, for every one ton base boards, it include about 40% metal materials and 60% nonmetals, which contain almost all the common elements in periodic table. By estimate, for 1 ton computer circuit boards, it contains 0.5kg gold, 130kg copper, 10kg iron, 60kg Plumbum, 40kg tin, 36kg nickel, 40kg antimony and some other rare precious metals, like Platinum, palladium, etc.[Related reading: Recycle printed circuit boards for cash]

PCB circuit board recycling machine

These metals can be reused to generate greater value, it’s the most valuable recyclable component of the circuit board. Due to the high price of metals in the market, so there are more and more people start PCB recycling business to recycle the metals from the waste circuit boards.

Next coming to how to recycle the recyclable components of waste PCB board?

The PCB circuit board recycling machine could effectively help it. PCB circuit board recycling machine is special designed for separating metals from waste PCB boards through crushing, air separation and electrostatic separation. After the whole process of PCB circuit board recycling machine, the metals recycling rate could be reaching to above 99.9%.

The process of PCB circuit board recycling machine

The non-metals are mainly resin fiber, which is mainly used in wood-plastic industry. Then about the metals, you could sell it directly for profit. So the metals and non-metals are the recyclable components of waste PCB boards could be sufficiently recycled to meet our requirement.

If you have a lot of waste PCB board and don't know what to do, or you want to buy such a PCB circuit board recycling machine, then this article will definitely help you learn more, any need to contact us directly.