Mining
Anyone who thinks there is a future without mining is dreaming. But we do need smarter, more sustainable mining. Many technologies we want to scale, like renewable energy and batteries, are metal-hungry. Urban mining is one solution: recovering, reusing and recycling metals from end-of-life products. But that won’t be enough. Today I met with the CEO of DEME, a global company that is investigating the sustainability of deep-sea, ocean-floor mining – scooping up polymetallic nodules formed over billions of years that contain metals like nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese. Could mining be disrupted towards sustainability?
— Wayne Visser
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