In pictures: e-waste recycling plants

May 4, 2012

We take a look at some of the world's biggest recycling plants where computers go to die and be reborn.

  A worker strips down a circuit board from an old computer for its electronics parts at the BRAL recycling company in Berlin, Germany. The parts will be recycled for their metals, including iron, aluminum, copper and nickel, as well as precious metals such as gold, palladium and tantalum. Many analysts are predicting shortfalls worldwide in coming decades of metals needed by the high-tech industry. [Photo credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images]  
 
A worker strips down a circuit board from an old computer for its electronics parts at the BRAL recycling company in Berlin, Germany. The parts will be recycled for their metals, including iron, aluminum, copper and nickel, as well as precious metals such as gold, palladium and tantalum. Many analysts are predicting shortfalls worldwide in coming decades of metals needed by the high-tech industry. [Photo credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images]

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