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fromEarth911
1 week ago

Sustainability In Your Ear: Buckstop's Alexander Olesen Digs Into Urban Mining

Every solar array, battery system, and EV charger installed over the past decade will eventually need to be decommissioned. Yet there's no unifying system to handle that flow of materials-no operating system for the reverse supply chain that the circular economy depends on. While Americans recycle 97% of vehicles, we recycle less than 20% of electronics, leaving valuable critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, and gold to languish in warehouses or end up in landfills.
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fromArchDaily
5 months ago

Social Housing Units 2104 / HARQUITECTES

The new social housing project effectively uses demolition materials from an old school for construction, promoting sustainability through urban mining.
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