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“This mining of metals from waste streams is what ‘urban mining’ is about.”

Professor Maria Holuszko

“Cities will become huge, rich and diverse mines of raw materials.”

Jane Jacobs

“If virgin mining is the ‘arteries’ of cities, urban mining is the ‘veins’.”

Professor Michio Nanjo

“When we talk about urban mining, we’re talking about mining what we have already made and brought into an urban context. We can mine many of these same materials out of our products, so not all of them end up in landfill.”

Jessika Richter

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