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Witness: U.S. exports most e-waste; domestic hydrometallurgy plants could speed recovery of critical minerals
Summary
Mint Innovations and others told the subcommittee the U.S. generates millions of tons of electronic waste and currently exports much of it for refining; company described lower-cost, quicker hydrometallurgy plants to recover copper, gold, palladium, silver and battery materials domestically.
Witnesses and members highlighted electronic waste as a growing source of critical minerals and a national security concern, with testimony describing gaps in domestic processing capacity and proposals to boost U.S. refining and recovery.
Matt Bedingfield, president of Mint Innovations, told the panel, “We generated approximately 7 to 8,000,000 metric tons of e waste each year in this country.” He said more than 6,000,000 metric tons of that volume are disposed in landfills and that the country lacks domestic refining capacity to recover many of…
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