[joelcollinsdc]

It’s not like you can just crack it open and the expensive metal falls out though. It’s an industrial process.

[thepasswordis]

Ummm, no that’s almost exactly how it works actually.

https://youtu.be/F8pd_p8gppE

[ipqk]

Sort of. The bulk of that material you see is just a ceramic substrate. There's only a few grams of valuable metals in each converter.

[tehwebguy]

Plus with literally hundreds of millions of dollars in profits there’s no problem doing some “industrial process“

[bluGill]

It isn't hard to melt those metals out. I used melt aluminum in my backyard, and the forums for that had discussions on other metals. While a backyard process is not going to recover all the metal, it is still going to get plenty.