"The plastic in inkjet cartridges is worth more than the gold in them," contends Mike Biddle, self-confessed plastics nerd and a PhD on the subject. His company, MBA Polymers in Berkeley, California, invented a method used to crush and separate the plastics in computer parts. Biddle turns old personal computers into plastic suitable for making new ones, and he's recently been working with Hewlett-Packard to recycle inkjet cartridges the valuable plastic as well as the gold and other metal leads at the bottom.
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