# @businessinsider on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=4yGPm1U7U6s
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/73227584-businessinsider-youtube
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/08a08ad555.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-05-19T15:00:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) — https://gondola.cc/BusinessInsider

## Caption

Electronics are chock-full of gold, but getting it out is so difficult that most of it goes to waste. A New Zealand startup has found a way to extract gold from old circuit boards using inexpensive chemicals and microbes that absorb precious metals. The founders hope it will reinvent how the world deals with e-waste.

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How To Mine Gold From Electronics | World Wide Waste

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- **Views:** 6,540,013
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- **Comments:** 2,511

## Tags

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