Are you getting ready to throw out your cellphone? Stop. That cellphone is worth its weight (almost) in precious metals.

As of this writing, gold is at $838/oz. And your phone has gold inside it.

For every ton of cellphones, recyclers can extract 150 grams of gold (or more), 100kg of copper, 3 kg of silver, and all of it with 99% purity... compare that to 3 less pure grams for a ton of earth at a normal gold mine.

Introduction:  This article serves as a primer of sorts.  It explains what we're about at Bits Going Green, and it provides a sort of template for how we'll be organizing the information that we talk about here on the site.  We explain what we think 'Green' technology actually is, and we talk a bit about the different ways that technology approaches the issue of environmentalism.