Urban Miners E-Waste Clock is Ticking
June 17, 2024
Urban Miners have been busy innovating again – this time they have created a clock to count all the e-waste that has passed through their hands.The clock hand – which currently sits just past the 60-tonne mark – shows that more than 60 tonnes of e-waste has been ...
Urban Miners Reach Out To Local Business Community for E-Waste
February 3, 2024
Urban Miners collaborated this week with the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce to host a ‘Mine and Dine’ for local businesses.Visitors from more than 25 businesses attended the event which was held in conjunction with an e-waste processing session at the Urban Miners’ base...
Urban Miners Celebrate Another Successful Year
December 21, 2023
Urban Miners celebrated their third year of operation at their annual Christmas barbeque over the weekend.Chairman Mark Hanlon commented “Another spectacular year! Our number one mission is to collect and divert e-waste from landfill, and during the last financial year we ...
Alan van Niekerk – Giving E-Waste a New Lease of Life
July 19, 2023
Urban Miners started selling second-hand computers and phones last year as part of their mission to repair, repurpose and recycle e-waste in Waipā. Volunteer Alan van Niekerk talks about the unprecedented demand for these refurbished goods and how the work that Urban M...
Geoff Bentley – A Passion for Sustainable Technology
May 12, 2023
There aren’t many people who know the inside of a mobile phone better than Geoff Bentley.He has a particular passion for repairing electronic devices that led him to become a volunteer for Urban Miners.As Geoff sees it, recycling takes energy. It’s far better to repair a...
Urban Miners Wins Top Waipā Environmental Award
April 22, 2023
Urban Miners emerged from a strong field last night to win the Waste Minimisation Environmental Award at the 2023 Waipā Networks Business Awards.It was an important win for the enterprise which started two years ago to address the growing problem of e-waste in the Waipā di...
Urban Miners Saves 38 Tonnes of E-waste From Landfill
March 16, 2023
After only 2 years of operating, volunteer-run Urban Miners has successfully diverted over 37,800 kg of Waipā’s e‑waste from landfill, roughly equivalent to the weight of a Boeing 737.One of the main goals of Urban Miners is to divert meaningful quantities of e-waste fr...
Urban Miners From The Inside With Greg Liddy
January 15, 2023
Long-standing volunteer – Greg Liddy – has been an integral part of Urban Miners since the concept was first proposed by founders Mark Hanlon and David Blewden.He shares his observations about how the organisation has grown over the past 2 years and how the team has beco...
Urban Miners Hit Two-Year Milestone
December 15, 2022
Urban Miners celebrated their second year of collecting e-waste in Waipā this week.More than 20 volunteers came long to join the celebration and mark another year of progress by the group.It is one of many milestones achieved since they started first collecting e-waste in D...
First-Hand From Volunteer Murray Glensor
August 1, 2022
We are hugely appreciative of our team of volunteers, some of whom have been with us since we first started. This week we profile one of our long-standing volunteers ‒ Murray Glensor ‒ who talks about being a volunteer with Urban Miners and the not-so-gentle art of proce...
