• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Well, you’re assuming this is all flat, unbent wiring. When this stuff is scrapped, it’s just a folded mess or ball. They want to just take a big junkyard mess of wiring and melt all the plastic off without any toxic byproducts, then recover the copper.