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Urban Miners diverting e waste from landfill by salvaging

Urban Miners diverting e waste from landfill by salvaging

Update: 2024-09-20
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About a hundred mainly retired volunteers operate a not for profit out of Waipa, sifting through people discarded household electronics, essentially mining your junk for stuff that can be salvaged. They're diverting about 24 tonnes of e-waste going to landfill each year but it's only a fraction of what they'd like to be doing, Urban Miners chairperson, Mark Hanlon spoke to Lisa Owen.
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