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Gold and Waste and recycling

Waste and recycling depends on gold.

Gold (commodity) and Waste and recycling (industry): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 4 of 5 · Gold → Waste and recycling

1 of the enterprise types in Waste and recycling depend on gold; for the most dependent, it rates 4 out of 5 on criticality.

  • 1 enterprise types depend on it
  • 4 of 5 highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Battery and e-waste recyclers: circuit boards (criticality 4 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.