movie.diginfo.tv DigInfo News Electrical and electronic equipment waste contains significant amounts of metal. DOWA ECO-SYSTEM has found an innovative way to use this waste by producing jewelry from the metal. Interview with Yuko Hayashi, Environmental Solution Dept., DOWA ECO-SYSTEM "In process of mining ore such as this, trees are cut down, mountains are leveled and rivers are polluted. On top of that the carbon footprint is increased with the material being delivered to Japan, this is before the metal has even gone through the manufacturing process. In this so called E-waste, there are a lot of metals inside these electronic devices. It is said that the amount of metal in a cell phone amounts to around sixty times more than in ore. So we can produce metal, which is the same quality as mined metal, in Japan, just by collecting metal from these devices, without having to cut down trees or flatten mountains. The world's gold deposits are predicted to last for only another 19 years, but we will try to prolong the longevity of these gold deposits for as long as possible by adopting this type of recycling system." Recycling 100% of the metal obtained from ore can reduce the environmental load to one three-hundredth the load created by mining. For example, around 10 tons of ore are needed to make a gold ring that weighs 10 grams, but only 0.037 tons are needed if the gold from cell phones is recycled. DOWA ECO-SYSTEM recovers 17 different kinds of metals from recycled waste <b>...</b>