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 ...
Free Battery Recycling Comes to Waipā
May 6, 2024
Free recycling for household batteries is now available to the Waipā community in both Te Awamutu and Cambridge thanks to support from the Te Awamutu and Cambridge Community Boards.In Te Awamutu, there is a permanent household battery collection stand in Pak N’ Save that ...
Waipā e-waste recyclers Rotary Urban Miners can now collect and transport e-waste in a purpose-built truck thanks to local family-owned business C&R Developments.The truck was gifted to Urban Miners from the Waipā District Council last year in recognition of their e-wa...
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 Hit 60 Tonnes of E-Waste Diverted From Landfill
January 24, 2024
At the close of 2023, Urban Miners successfully diverted 59,935 kg of e-waste from landfill since operations began in December 2020. This is similar to the weight of an Airbus A321.This does not include the weight of refurbished and repurposed goods and devices sold at the C...
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 ...
Urban Miners Finalists at Sustainable Business Awards
November 23, 2023
Waipa e-waste recyclers Urban Miners are very proud to be named as a finalist for the Outstanding Collaboration Award at the 2023 New Zealand Sustainable Business Awards.The Outstanding Collaboration Award, sponsored by the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment, ...
Urban Miners Saves 49 Tonnes of E-waste from Landfill
October 6, 2023
As of September 2023, Waipā e‑waste recyclers Urban Miners have successfully diverted over 48,800 kg of e-waste from landfill since operations began in December 2020. This is similar to the weight of an Airbus A321.These latest numbers reveal the considerable impact ...
Happy Ending for Pallets of E-waste
September 18, 2023
‘One man’s trash is another man’s treasure’ came true recently when several pallets of e-waste destined for landfill took a uniquely positive journey.It started when a supplier of animal equipment was forced to scrap four pallets of imported egg incubators because th...
Are You Stockpiling E-waste?
August 23, 2023
In 2022, a massive 5.3 billion mobile phones around the world became e-waste. Only a small fraction of them were disposed of properly.Despite containing valuable gold, copper, silver, palladium and other recyclable components, experts believe that most cell phones disappear ...
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