We talk a lot about how mercury recycling leads to a cleaner environment by reducing the amount of mercury containing waste that gets thrown away, but recycling also reduces the environmental contamination associated with mining mercury-containing ore (see image) in the first place. Writing in Waste Management World, Christer Sundberg of Swedish company MRT System International AB examines some of the issues.
The concept of urban mining. What it all means.
The concept of urban mining, like so many other recycling terms needs to be explained. The general populace understands primary mining where resources in the