TED-ED VID: What's a Smartphone Made Of?

[Ryan Goble]

As of 2018, there are around 2.5 billion smartphones in the world. If we broke them down into parts, that would produce 85,000 kg of gold, 875,000 of silver and 40,000,000 of copper.

How did this precious cache get into our phones, and can we reclaim it? https://t.co/UiR429JmXg pic.twitter.com/g9gkhXsnQV

— TED-Ed (@TED_ED) October 1, 2018