E-waste Recycling Business I Hope To Start In The Near Future. :)

Hey All;
I am planning on in the near future to start an E-Waste Recycling company. I am wanting to start it hopefully next year. I want to prevent more of the old technology being shipped to China, and ending up in a town in China like this one at:
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Just look at what is being done with your old computer, monitor, iphone, Ipad, and other things. Sad, huh? Is there really a solution for it? Well...........

I am planning on getting it started to where I will recycle everything that is in the computer, including the hazardous material involved in making it all the way down to the microchip, the eeprom chip, cpu gold plated pins, and even the traces in the motherboard that can contain either copper, or gold, and computer parts, including the monitors, hard drives, and other things. I want to even recycle the plastic into Fuel oil. The old Parallel ATA Hard Drives have Neodymium in them that is a rare earth metal, that if something is not done to recycle it here in the USA, China, might put a trade restriction on it, which will drive up the cost of that rare earth material. There is a company in California that recycles it called Molycorp Inc.

My Business plan is being revised and I will soon try to put it on my channel, but in the meantime, my video about my solution is on my channel with the title named "Renegade Computer's BP". If you all can, save your old computer parts, and do not throw them away. I will want to recycle them when I get my business started.

What do you all think of my business plan so far? I hope it takes off, because I want to start here in the USA, then expand globally.

Shirou said:

It is a great idea but, how are you going to cope with the cost of recycling?.
When talking costs, there is almost no way to make a profit on e-waste recycling but on the simplest materials like steel, copper, aluminium and recovering those materials are sometimes more damaging to the environment and way more expensive than just putting the bulk of trash on a pile.
When recycling a circuit board you end up mostly with plastic which is non-recyclable (and toxic), random metal from component "legs", Sn, Pb and Ag from the solder material, aluminium and rubber from the capacitor cans, and the integrated circuits which are packaged in hard plastic. Removing that plastic to recover the minuscule amount of gold from the bonding wires is even more expensive than the cost of the material you are recovering. The silicon on an integrated circuit is worthless, same as the (now dissolved) plastic.
It is A LOT of work to disassemble something like a computer motherboard (I did it a few times), it requires a bunch of time and power because it needs to be heated-up to liquify the solder and free up the components.

When we buy electronics, the cost of the thing we buy is about what it costs to manufacture and profits. The cost of disposing of of that product is way higher.
I'm interested in recycling and it'll be great to have some answers, producing things is so cheap compared to throwing them away.

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Thanks, yeah, that is one of the things I am working on. As far as the plastic, I want to recycle that into fuel oil, so, mostly, if not all plastic will be recycled into fuel oil. This, I believe could drive down the cost of gasoline.
The copper and gold traces are in old motherboards, and the way to get those out is through sending it to a chemical company in Warwick, Rhode Island. Their video is at:

That is one option. I will probably use that option for the circuit boards, then use the plastic to convert to fuel oil from the component parts.

This is another option that I will probably use and that is to use this with this company as well: when it comes to the recovering of gold, copper, and silver.

This company will recycle the Neodymium that you can get from old Hard drives that are the Parallel ATA's . This company's video is at: As far as the computer chips, since those are made of silicone, I am still researching how to recycle that back into it's raw form, or if they can be recycled to put towards making solar panels.

As far as I know it, it is still in the planning stages, and I have already started on creating a base from which I can see what it will cost to recycle capacitors like the Tantalum and electrolytic capacitors.