I dont have a good answer, I have THEE answer...
What do they do with them? well its actually quite simple. Once their techs are done scavenging what they want, (dvr's, charlie cards, etc. etc.) They box them up.
The continue to load up boxes till the get alot of them (usually 5 per box, for a total of 100 peices, or 20 boxes). They then call up the "recycling" company, and they come and pick them up.
Now from there, it's anyones guess as to what the "recycling" company does with them. My local company USED to litterly crank up a steam roller, and crush em. No, I'm not kidding. However, they stopped doing this for 2 reasons.
1. The found out the recycling company will pay them for the boxes
2. They found out that if they dont throw away the broken boxes in their dumpster, the local waste management gave them a discount for only having "reall" garbage (food, boxes, plastic wraps, etc. etc.)
So there ya have it.
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