Turning the E-Waste Stream Into a National Asset w/ Matt Bedingfield
About this episode
Matt Bedingfield discusses the potential of e-waste as a national asset and the importance of a sovereign supply chain in America.
CEO of Mint Innovation, Matt Bedingfield, will tell you there's a gap in America's reshoring push that almost nobody's talking about. We're rebuilding the muscle to make things again, but we skipped the raw materials those plants run on, and the country now faces a million-ton copper shortfall it fills by exporting scrap and re-importing the same metal refined. In this episode, we explore why a sovereign supply chain matters as much as the factories themselves, how the "urban mine" of electronic waste could become a national asset instead of a landfill problem, and why solving this takes an ecosystem rather than one company at a time.
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