{"id":7459,"date":"2022-10-30T21:35:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T21:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=7459"},"modified":"2022-10-30T21:35:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T21:35:07","slug":"business-maverick-there-are-critical-minerals-hiding-in-your-junk-drawer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=7459","title":{"rendered":"Business Maverick: There Are Critical Minerals Hiding in Your Junk Drawer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As countries scrutinize mineral supply chains needed to fuel the clean energy transition, one potential source is hiding in junk drawers and trash cans all over the world. An estimated 5.3 billion phones will fall out of use this year, according to data from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)\u00a0for the\u00a0Global e-Waste Monitor\u00a0\u2014 adding to what researchers call a largely untapped \u201curban mine\u201d\u00a0that could be used for new technology like solar panels&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2022-10-14-there-are-critical-minerals-hiding-in-your-junk-drawer\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As countries scrutinize mineral supply chains needed to fuel the clean energy transition, one potential<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7459-business-maverick-there-are-critical-minerals-hiding-in-your-junk-drawer.jpg",1280,853,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7459-business-maverick-there-are-critical-minerals-hiding-in-your-junk-drawer-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7459-business-maverick-there-are-critical-minerals-hiding-in-your-junk-drawer-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7459-business-maverick-there-are-critical-minerals-hiding-in-your-junk-drawer-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7459-business-maverick-there-are-critical-minerals-hiding-in-your-junk-drawer-1024x682.jpg",640,426,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7459-business-maverick-there-are-critical-minerals-hiding-in-your-junk-drawer.jpg",1280,853,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7459-business-maverick-there-are-critical-minerals-hiding-in-your-junk-drawer.jpg",1280,853,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7459-business-maverick-there-are-critical-minerals-hiding-in-your-junk-drawer-1024x682.jpg",1024,682,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7459-business-maverick-there-are-critical-minerals-hiding-in-your-junk-drawer-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7459-business-maverick-there-are-critical-minerals-hiding-in-your-junk-drawer-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}