{"id":1026224,"date":"2026-08-05T07:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026224"},"modified":"2026-08-05T07:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:11:14","slug":"britains-royal-mint-strikes-gold-in-electronic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/05\/britains-royal-mint-strikes-gold-in-electronic-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Royal Mint strikes gold in electronic waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Llantrisant: At the heart of Britain&#8217;s coin factory, old Bank of England telephones are stripped down and dipped into giant vats to recover a hidden treasure: the gold in their circuits. <\/p>\n<p>Behind barbed wire and coded security gates at its site near Cardiff in Wales, the Royal Mint &#8212; the state-owned maker of British coins as well as medals &#8212; is turning electronic waste into luxury jewellery. <\/p>\n<p>The initiative remains unusual in a sector where much electronic waste never reaches proper recycling facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Llantrisant: At the heart of Britain&#8217;s coin factory, old Bank of England telephones are stripped down and dipped into giant vats to recover a hidden treasure: the gold in their circuits. Behind barbed wire and coded security gates at its site near Cardiff in Wales, the Royal Mint &#8212; the state-owned maker of British coins as well as medals &#8212; is turning electronic waste into luxury jewellery. The initiative remains unusual in a sector where much electronic waste never reaches proper recycling facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026250,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026224\/revisions\/1026250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}