Electronics Scrap Recycling At Aurubis

LUENEN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 07: An view inside the copper tankhouse of Aurubis AG, which produces copper cathodes from the copper anodes, an employee controls the refinement process in the electrolysis baths on February 7, 2014 in Luenen, Germany. Aurubis is Germany's biggest recycler of scrap electronics and extracts metals including copper and gold from chips, hard drives, mobile phones, computers and other electronics devices. Recycling of electronic scrap is gaining in importance as worldwide supplies of metals, especially rare metals such as platinum, silver, tantalum and gold, become increasingly scarce. (Photo by Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images)