20 Sep 2024

Urban Miners diverting e waste from landfill by salvaging

From Checkpoint, 4:06 pm on 20 September 2024

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.