| Getting the gold off the boards might seem like a good idea for a get rich quick scheme, but like everything else it ain't that easy.
Salvaging scrap PCB's can be a resonable business if you salvage zillions of them (like Swannymere's mate with the helicopter in the garden) but you actually need expensive plant to do it effectively. Printed Circuit Boards are actually difficult to dispose of effectively because it's illegal to put them directly into landfill in most countries, you can't burn them without expensive furnaces because they give of toxic fumes. I think that the favoured method is currently to strip out all the recyclables and then grind the boards up into powder that can be chemically treated to make it inert for landfill, | 
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