Circuit Boad Recycling

[EPhantom]

So I am not very good in chemistry, but I have been wanting to find a way to recycle circuit boards, and I would love help to find an efficient way to do this.

 

To what I understand, the primary metals in circuit boards (dependent on location) are:

copper

tin

lead

silver

gold

aluminum

 

With trace amounts of (to what I have heard)

platinum

palladium

 

Other molecules

bromine, Phosphorus, and silicon

resin (for solder work)

carbon

ceramics

plastics

fiber glass

"cyanate ester"

Teflon

 

and probably a bunch more that I can't think of =/

 

The primay goal of this project is to be able to find a way to recycle circuitboards so that heavy metals and such don't get dumped into land fills, and so that we don't have to re-mine all the resources over and over.

 

The things I would worry about the most would be the plastics, teflon, metals, silicon, bromine, phosphorus, and cyanate.

[lawcat]

I would think the primary reason would be to extract gold. http://www.ehow.com/how_4843105_extract-gold-computer-circuit-boards.html