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these are old printers computers and phones and this machine's shredding them to be recycled only about 17 of all electronic waste ends up like this it's very hard to recycle electronics they're not designed to be recycled there are hundreds of tiny pieces hidden in every device from toxic materials to plastic to gold and they each have to be separated and recycled individually such precision takes lots of people space and heavy duty machines with a good deal of feminine power sally is our big shredder heidi is german ginger's our metal finder female dominant machines of course yes and if everything goes right there's lots of money to be made we'll pull off the pieces which will be of value that's ingrid president of sims lifecycle services one of the largest e-recyclers in the u.s ingrid took us through her biggest facility to see how it's repurposing or recycling up to six million pounds of old electronics every month so we're in laverne tennessee just outside of nashville this is a 200 000 square foot facility where we focus on receiving processing electronics sims mainly gets electronic waste from office gear like laptops computers printers or phones we have fortune 500 companies like hp and lexmark insurance companies banks the rest of its clients are secret but ingrid can tell us what happens to these devices once they get here reuse repurpose re-engineer if we can't reuse it very last resort is recycling what you see here is where we first get the material in it's a fifo type of process first in first out that's how we work it here she's offloading a truck so she'll go in get her forks into the pallet and pull it out it's supposed to come from an office refresh it looks like there's some old dvd players some old stereo equipment the first stop the scale then they will get the weight and input it into our data center and that's what drew is doing over there with the computer then it gets tagged with a barcode it'll tell us whether we go to destroy recycle or we go to reuse the building's broken up into recycling on the right and reuse on the left we'll start here if we can reuse it and reuse the parts then you're not making a new part so this is the hard harvesting area for laptops sometimes when you can't sell the whole laptop we can remove parts from it and either rebuild a laptop to sell or sell the parts to get all these tiny pieces out of the device without hurting them it takes a lot of skill and different screws a lot of different screws so much of it still needs to be done manually and to do it properly and that's very labor intensive memory units processors screens keyboards and motherboards can all be reused workers will clean them check that they're functioning and send them back into...