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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
World Environment Day – How to Minimise Your E-Waste
June 3, 2023
Our love of technology and insatiable appetite for new devices has created one of the biggest environmental issues of our time – e-waste.E-waste is New Zealand’s fastest growing waste stream. Every year, the average Kiwi generates a massive 20 kg of e-waste yet only 2% o...
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...
Successful Move for Urban Miners Stall
February 13, 2023
Urban Miners have changed the location of their monthly stall selling refurbished electronic devices from Tamahere Country Market to the Lions Market in Cambridge for 2023.Early signs are that the move is a big success. The first stall at the new venue this weekend had the m...
