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Mint Innovation: Turning e-waste into gold

Written by Icehouse Ventures | March 2023
 
Mint Innovation is an NZ cleantech company that has developed and scaled their low-carbon chemistry and biological process to recover valuable metals from e-waste and feed them back into local economies and supply chains. 

 

 

Mint Innovation recently announced their $60m Series C - funding that will help accelerate their capability to extract precious metals from the world's e-waste 📱🥇

We spoke with Founder and CEO, Will Barker, about the process of turning old cellphone and laptop circuit boards into (literal) gold, the company's next steps after opening the world's first commercial-scale biorefinery in Sydney, and the kind of future they want to help create ♻️