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>Britta Bookhagen, Head of the Recycling Raw Materials Department at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR). She clarifies: "Urban mining refers to products at the end of their life." Only when all other avenues, such as repairing or reselling, have been exhausted is it a matter of recycling - "not into the drawer, please", says Bookhagen.</p>
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