jade's rickshaw drivers coming to the villages they bring entirely new opportunities for development with your dissenters a standoff i'm going to and i'm going to pick a spot. bangladesh is one of the world's poorest countries more than one thousand rivers make developing infrastructure difficult. we're back on the island which is only accessible by ferry. peak next to roads utility poles are lying on the ground unused. it's a common sight seventeen million households are too isolated to be connected to the national grid. in their villages are the shops are open late into the evening. thanks in part to the new local energy grid.

now where over fourteen million tonnes of east is generated and the boasting the electronics market is only adding to this number many of these going to talk see chemicals which could force a huge threat if not disposed off properly one german company is on the case take a look. one man's trash is another man's treasure. some that man runs a business that deals in precious metals the entrepreneur buys up old computers circuit boards contained within the thousands of discarded elec charnock parts females for a cup of silver and gold for. the processors of the most valuable thing an electronic waste of a store may contain about sixty thousand euros worth of precious metals. the waste comes from germany and its neighboring countries dominic mann maintains close contact with his suppliers to ensure profitability he needs large quantities of

electronic waste. in the mines each of the electronic components contains just a couple of milligrams of precious metal that means you have to recycle tons of waste to get any worthwhile amount of silver gold or palladium. one of his business partners is the firm see our recycling it specializes in recycling elektra negs in an environmentally friendly fashion germany has very strict standards for this. the first step is to sort of scrap plastic sheet metal cables almost all of it can be separated and recycled. it's the higher quality as it turned out devices such as mobile phones and computers however that are the real goldmine. this is your

typical computer motherboard the battery has to be taken out so that nothing happens during the shredding or smelting process within looking at about one year of fifty per kilo is that right mr howes and my. that's about right here we have a good plug in board with nice gold plated parts and without any contaminants here we're looking at about two euro z.b. per kilo. off if this people. that's why it's cost effective for the company to dismantle the computers by hand. cables housings and circuit boards a carefully sorted. televisions and monitors the less valuable even though the shielded cables are full of copper wire. but they also contain toxic elements such as lead and cadmium in germany these must be disposed of properly so they don't end up in the drinking water. small sure it is

a you specifically for hard drives that contain data that customers want destroyed . specialized facilities take care of the masses of material later the smelters separate the metal fragments and melt down the shredded material. the mog it's a global market that's why the disassembly can be done worldwide as well as the flow of a materials and the processing you. dominick dunne carefully inspects the incoming goods he pays suppliers by the weight of the delivery and the current price of raw materials his trading partners can check the company website for updates on quality and prices and there's no end to the supply more than forty million tonnes of wasted generated every year recycling it doesn't only save money it helps protect the environment and preserve natural resources. i hope you enjoy it to base showing

how many takeaways from it will be back next week with many more stories of people making a difference for a sustainable future good bye and have a wonderful week. the

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