In New Zealand and Australia, green chemistry company Mint is scaling up its community of city-based biorefineries to extract various metals, such as gold and copper, from e-waste in a equally low-carbon means. Mint’s Sydney-based operation will service about 25% of Australia’s total printed-circuit-board waste , with plans to increase into the UK by 2024. With rising consciousness about the environmental and social impacts of typical mining, new green technologies might be scaled up enough to drive the expansion of a more round financial system for precious metals. ICRA estimates its pattern set of 12 major organised jewellers to report …