In short not a lot, but if you start gathering lots of computers and recycle them properly the gold content starts to grow to significant numbers.

Jim Nash wrote this blog on Dell’ Computers web site a couple of years ago, it does beg the question why is so much computer equipment NOT recycled?

At Secure Data Recycling our aim is to extract all precious materials out of an old PC and make sure the balance of the materials are recycled to ensure a ZERO landfill target on each computer recycled by Secure Data Recycling.