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The urban mine nobody's processing: Matt Bedingfield on recovering critical minerals from e-waste

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Sunny Qin
Published on
March 19, 2026
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On the Mission Critical podcast, Global President Matt Bedingfield sat down with Logan Jones to talk about the push for critical mineral onshoring in the U.S. and the challenges standing in the way. The United States generates millions of tons of e-waste each year, yet very little of it is processed domestically and instead is exported along with the valuable materials inside it.

The conversation touches on what's driving that gap, and why closing it comes down to building faster, more flexible processing capacity that can be deployed closer to where the material already exists.

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