Recycling instead of miningRaw materials lying dormant in the drawer
According to Bitkom, around 210 million old cell phones were stored in German households last year. This means that 87% of people had at least one discarded cell phone. This figure has more than doubled since 2015.
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<p>Felix Müller, responsible for the topic of urban mining at the Federal Environment Agency (UBA): "The vision is to become less dependent on raw material imports; rather, we should become veritable raw material producers with secondary extraction. In this way, we can also open up a new economic field."</p>
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