{"id":10718,"date":"2026-02-25T04:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/unlocking-the-urban-mine-a-path-to-us-mineral-sovereignty-through-e-waste\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T04:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:02:26","slug":"unlocking-the-urban-mine-a-path-to-us-mineral-sovereignty-through-e-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/unlocking-the-urban-mine-a-path-to-us-mineral-sovereignty-through-e-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking the &#8216;urban mine&#8217;:  A path to US mineral sovereignty through e-waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Unlocking the &#8216;urban mine&#8217;:  A path to US mineral sovereignty through e-waste<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Inside America&#8217;s junk drawers sits an untapped fortune, and a national and economic security solution. As the global race for critical minerals intensifies, University of Houston researchers have unveiled a breakthrough supply chain model designed to transform e-waste from a mounting environmental hazard into a stable, domestic engine for the U.S. economy.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-02-urban-path-mineral-sovereignty.html\">Go to techxplore<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlocking the &#8216;urban mine&#8217;: A path to US mineral sovereignty through e-waste Inside America&#8217;s junk drawers sits an untapped fortune, and a national and economic security solution. As the global race for critical minerals intensifies, University of Houston researchers have unveiled a breakthrough supply chain model designed to transform e-waste from a mounting environmental hazard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,45],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-10718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-techxplore","tag-techxplore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}